V Angband 3.0.6 and MacOS X 10.4

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Apparently Apple made some changes that mean the current Mac port no
longer works in MacOS X 10.4. The use of SET_UID is problematic, so the
program quits when it tries to work with some of the files and can't get
the permissions. If you dyke those checks out, you crash in CheckEvents.

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Sherm Pendley <spamtrap@dot-app.org> wrote:

> Harry Erwin wrote:
>
> > Apparently Apple made some changes that mean the current Mac port no
> > longer works in MacOS X 10.4. The use of SET_UID is problematic, so the
> > program quits when it tries to work with some of the files and can't get
> > the permissions. If you dyke those checks out, you crash in CheckEvents.
>
> Hmm... I've been playing a home-built copy of NPP on Tiger since NPP
> 0.4.1 was released a couple of weeks ago. I commented out the "#define
> SAFE_SETUID" - line 94 of config.h in V - and it's been working without
> problems.
>
> I just tried the same thing with V - no crashing that I could see, just
> the font-size glitch I've mentioned before.
>
> sherm--

RR sorted this out. It's arcane and apparently restricted to V 3.0.6 and
derivatives. He has a bugfix identified.

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Harry Erwin <http://www.theworld.com/~herwin>
My neuroscience wikiwiki is at
<http://scat-he-g4.sunderland.ac.uk/~harryerw/phpwiki/index.php>