X-Git-Url: http://git.pond.sub.org/?p=empserver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=1a597a261937948186b76c8fa9273031b5c65207;hp=1a084e0fe4ca5454082d1d0d4ce75fbdcbf5a2dc;hb=54b1e7e167fd594d39ff91fd78e34cb8b411162b;hpb=73e25ff21eb3d172961db1cad4bd370f17103c23 diff --git a/README b/README index 1a084e0fe..1a597a261 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ Welcome to Empire 4, code-named Wolfpack. Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game. -Copyright (C) 1986-2010, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken -Stevens, Steve McClure +Copyright (C) 1986-2020, 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. @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ To build the server and set up a game, follow the steps below. If you downloaded a tarball, unpack it. If you cloned a git repository, run bootstrap. This requires - recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed. + recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed. See + also doc/contributing. (2) Building a server @@ -33,6 +34,16 @@ To build the server and set up a game, follow the steps below. make install. The last step is optional; everything runs fine right from the build tree. + If configure reports "readline: no" in its configuration summary, + fancy line editing doesn't work in the client. Commonly caused by + not having development libraries installed. On Linux, try + installing readline-devel. + + 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'. @@ -84,11 +95,11 @@ Naturally, there's more to running a real game than that, but that's beyond the scope of this file. Please report bugs to or via SourceForge -http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver (registration required). + (registration required). For more information or help, try rec.games.empire on Usenet, or send e-mail to and we'll try to answer if we -can. Also check out our web site at "http://www.wolfpackempire.com". +can. Also check out our web site at . Have fun!