Patch for compiling EQEmu with gcc 4.1

[John Adams]

This would so kick ass if I do not have to re-install yet another Linux just to get an old gcc to work. Thank you, eq4me. I'll host the file for you if you PM it to me.

Looks clean at first glance, though (copy/paste into a notepad doc). No extra spaces, which I think is what you're talking about.

[eq4me]

Originally Posted by John Adams

I'll host the file for you if you PM it to me..

Unfortunately you can't attach a file to a PM, I would have to snap&paste it into the message.

You could do the changes manually if the patch does not apply and diff again.

The commandline would be

diff  -N -u1 -r <orig-src-dir> <modified-src-dir>  >EQEmu-gcc-4.1.patch

I would recommend doing this with a newly untared archive as the compiling, even after a `make clean`, does leave some files which you dont want to clutter your patch with.

[John Adams]

Ok I'll check that out when I get home. I need to learn this Diff stuff anyway.

[John Adams]

I am having the worst luck with this. Replacing the lines manually worked perfectly. I can compile and run my world on Linux no problem. Even made a few tweaks to make sure I was really getting it done right.

However, I cannot get this patch above to apply no matter what I do. Even taking just one simple thing (Makefile) and trying to patch gives me an error, thinking it's already been patched and wanting to -R it... but the file still has the extra MAKEs in it, so it's not already patched.

And, I was able to do the diff to re-make the patch the other night perfectly - following your diff example above (except on my Fedora, it says -u1 is obsolete and to use -u 1). Now, tonight, out of nowhere, I cannot even Diff anymore. Now it says my second dir is an extra operand lol... I give up.

Need sleep. I'll try again tomorrow.

[John Adams]

Stupid edit button. I knew as soon as I cried and whined like a noob, I'd fix it. I finally got the Diff to work again (upper-case U, not lower case u oops).

Here's a link to the diff file for anyone interested in what eq4me did above. I tested it on a virgin 070-857 tar and got no errors so I think it's formatted right.

http://members.cox.net/raahvinmt/fil...57-gcc41.patch




(btw, it's tomorrow...)

[kumado]

I was making an attempt to get the installation done under Suse 10.0. gcc 4.1. I had to modify each make file in one place from <errmsg.h> to "errmsg.h". It was not finding the header.
Once I got it to find the mysql*.h files and the libmysqlclient file, I got down to cleanipc error.
I figgure I was stuck, too new gcc and mysql and installed Suse 9.1 to roll back a bit.
It made just fine with no links to mysql or changes to the make files ( EQEmu-0.7.0-940 ) but it halted in the same place - cleanipc.
I mention it in hopes it helps someone else.

I also ask for help on what to do next. I saw a message to do g++ cleanipc.cpp -o cleanipc, which I did. Truthfully, what to do with all the peices in what fashion next is too scattered to find. 'Secially on 24k dial-up.
EQ4ME's wiki shows to copy the exe over to the server folder, what else do you do? Do I go for the data bases? Copy the files from the EQ game installation over ( to where ) is there a better file structure set up and server launch sequence please?

Thanks

Kumado