Why upgrade? I'm not a lawyer, but here's my take on the differences
to version 2:
* Software patents: better protection against abuse of patents to
prevent users from exercising the rights under the GPL. I doubt
we'll get hit with a patent suit, but it's a good move just on
general principles.
* License compatibility: compatible with more free licenses, i.e. can
"steal" more free software for use in Empire. I don't expect to steal
much, but it's nice to have the option.
* Definition of "source code": modernization of some details for today's
networked world, to make it easier to distribute the software. Not
really relevant to us now, as we normally distribute full source code.
* Tivoization: this is about putting GPL-licensed software in hardware,
then make the hardware refuse to run modified software. "Neat" trick
to effectively deny its users their rights under the GPL. Abuse was
"pioneered" by TiVo (popular digital video recorders). GPLv3 forbids
it. Unlikely to become a problem for us.
* Internationalization: more careful wording, to harden the license
outside the US. The lawyers tell us it better be done that way.
* License violations: friendlier way to deal with license violations.
This has come out of past experience enforcing the GPL.
* Additional permissions: Probably not relevant to us.
Also include myself in the list of principal authors.
Many commands, compiler invocations in particular, are rather long,
and warnings tend to get lost in the noise. Suppress the command
details. Run make with a V=1 parameter for full output.
Move client's w32_connect() to w32sockets.c.
Replace w32_recv() and w32_send() by read() and write().
Replace w32_close() by w32_close_function.
Replace call of WSAStartup() in w32_sysdep_init() by
w32_socket_init().
Remove the identical copies of fd_is_socket(),
w32_set_winsock_errno(), w32_socket().
This reverts commit 3ec807e99a.
Our nightly build test cases rely on the PRN sequence generated by GNU
libc's random(). We used to have such a PRNG in our tree (derived
from an old version of GNU libc's), for use under Windows. Thus we
got the same PRN sequence on both our nightly test systems. Commit
3ec807e9 switched to -liberty under Windows and removed our random().
Now we got a different sequence there, breaking the test cases.
Test cases still don't work on non-Windows systems where random()
doesn't match GNU libc's. We should switch to a PRNG that produces
the same sequence everywhere.
Conflicts:
src/lib/w32/w32misc.h
This is so we can avoid linking utilities with socket libraries (see
commit 8b778634).
When using sockets, we need to replace close(), because Windows'
close() can't cope with socket file descriptors. But replacing it
always would pull in the socket stuff again. Define close() to call
function pointer w32_close_function, which is initially _close.
Rename posix_close() to w32_close_maybe_socket(). Make new
w32_socket_init() put it in w32_close_function.
Same for read() and write(): define read(), write() to call function
pointers w32_read_function, w32_write_function, initially _read(),
_write(); rename posix_read(), posix_write() to
w32_read_maybe_socket(), w32_write_maybe_socket(), and put them into
w32_read_function, w32_write_function in w32_socket_init().
Also call WSAStartup() there, and use that from loc_NTInit().
WSACleanup() now belongs next to w32_socket_init(). Don't bother,
just drop it, along with loc_NTTerm().
Make configure compute three sets of libraries: LIBS_client for the
client, LIBS_server for the server, and LIBS for the rest. This
replaces termlibs.
Unfortunately, LIBS doesn't work with Windows, because
src/lib/w32/posixio.c pulls in socket stuff. Temporary workaround:
use LIBS_server instead.
Make didn't remake sources.mk even though it was a phony target. I
don't understand why. But we can just as well create it in its only
user, dist-source.
In that case, make copied the sources.mk from $srcdir, but unless it
existed already, the peculiar workings of VPATH did us in: make
searched for the target, found it in $srcdir, and the dependency
became circular.
Fix by keeping sources.mk in $srcdir always. We can build it there,
because its contents depends only on git state, not on anything in the
build tree. This avoids the need to copy sources.mk alltogether.
Broken since commit 35db407d, v.4.3.12. v4.3.14 and v4.3.15 were
distributed with a stale sources.mk in the tarball. The latter does
not build out of the box because of that.
empdump exports and imports game state as plain text. Limitations: it
currently can't export player bmaps, power report, telegrams,
announcements, message of the day, no-login message and log files.
Exported floating-point values may be inexact. Importing an exported
game state may not result in identical data files; besides the loss of
floating-point precision just mentioned, coordinates are normalized,
and characters beyond a string's terminating zero in a character array
are lost. Bug: importing resets timestamps to zero. It should set
them to the current time.
If gcc's preprocessor chokes, it leaves an empty dependency file
behind, and doesn't touch the object file. If an old object file
exists, and is newer than the .c file, make will then consider the
object file up-to-date. This can lead to nasty version errors.
Move stuff to untangle the ugly cyclic dependencies between the
archives built for selected subdirectories of src/lib/:
* Move common/io.c to empthread/ because it requires empthread stuff
* Move parts of subs/nstr.c to common/nstreval.c to satisfy
common/ef_verify.o
* Move getstarg.c getstring.c onearg.c from gen/ to subs/ because they
require stuff from there
* Move bridgefall.c check.c damage.c empobj.c journal.c maps.c
sectdamage.c from common/ to subs/ because they require stuff from
there
* Move cnumb.c from subs/ to common/ to satisfy common/type.o
* Move log.c fsize.c from common/ to gen/ because they really belong
there
* Move emp_config.c mapdist.c from gen/ to common/ because they really
belong there, and require stuff from libglobal.a
Also package as/ as libas.a to satisfy common/path.o.
Remaining dependencies:
lib needs
--------------------------------------------
libas.a libglobal.a
libcommon.a libas.a libglobal.a libgen.a
libgen.a
libglobal.a
liblwp.a libgen.a
libw32.a[*] libgen.a
[*] Except for service.o, which can only be linked into the server
Link order now: liblwp.a libcommon.a libas.a libgen.a libglobal.a
libw32.a. The position of libw32.a is not quite right, but works
anyway.
Detect .git instead of CVS. Use git-ls-files with git, else
$(srcdir)/sources.mk. info/findsubj.pl now gets the info files as
arguments rather than from sources.mk.
Remaking info subjects doesn't quite work, but it was broken similarly
before.
w32_writev_socket, w32_close_socket, getpass, w32_openfd,
w32_openhandle, w32_readv_handle, w32_close_handle,
sysdep_init, sysdep_stdin_init, w32_select, w32_signal_handler,
sigaction, stdin_read_thread, w32_ring_from_file_to_bounce_buf)
[_WIN32]: New w32 equivalent functions for POSIX functions.
(recvline, sendcmd, tcp_connect, hostconnect, getpass,
main, intr, play, ring_to_file, ring_from_file, doexecute,
doredir) [_WIN32]: Use new WIN32 equivalent functions.
(main) [_WIN32]: Add sysdep_init() to support system dependent
initialization for equivalence functions.
(play) [_WIN32]: Add sysdef_stdin_init() to support system
dependent initialization for reading stdin.
(recv_input, play) [_WIN32]: Replace the calls to ring_to_file()
and select() with WIN32 specific enhanced versions.
Makefile.in: update dependencies with new files.
Make.mk: Add using of getopt.c and getopt.h
from src/lib/w32 directory. Add getopt.c and getopt.h
to tar for client.
