Welcome to Empire 4, code-named Wolfpack.
Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
-Copyright (C) 1986-2008, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken
-Stevens, Steve McClure
+Copyright (C) 1986-2013, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
+Ken Stevens, Steve McClure, Markus Armbruster
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License (in file
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License (in file
`COPYING'), or (at your option) any later version.
See file `CREDITS' for a list of contributors.
If you downloaded a tarball, unpack it.
- If you're pulling from CVS, check out and run bootstrap. This
- requires recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
+ If you cloned a git repository, run bootstrap. This requires
+ recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
(2) Building a server
make install. The last step is optional; everything runs fine
right from the build tree.
+ If configure reports "terminfo: no" in its configuration summary,
+ highlighting doesn't work in the client. Commonly caused by not
+ having development libraries installed. On Linux, try installing
+ ncurses-devel.
+
If make fails without doing anything, you're probably not using
GNU make. Some systems have it installed as `gmake'.