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From: goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack 3 PL 9 on SCO Unix and const declarations
Keywords: SCO,Unix,nethack,const
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.185002.29458@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 9 Jul 90 18:50:02 GMT
References: <11@lemans.dec.com>
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In article <11@lemans.dec.com> libove@kamet.enet.dec.com writes about
problems he encountered bringing NetHack up under SCO Unix.

I wonder:  Have you tried bringing up NetHack using gcc?  Rather than
spend hours looking for bugs introduced by the default compiler, why
not just use gcc?

Not a flame.  It's just that gcc produces smaller and faster executable
under Xenix, at least, and the optimizer seems to introduce far fewer
problems.  There is support in the makefile, moreover, for gcc, so you
can pretty much just change a few parameters, make, and then go.

   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer