57410 2004-07-17 12:54 0000 nethack can't open help file, history file in tty windowtype 2004-09-24 03:05:43 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Games unspecified x86 Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 sey5020@mail.ru games@gentoo.org bdonlan@gmail.com benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.fr sey5020@mail.ru 2004-07-17 12:54:31 0000 emerged nethack-3.4.3-r1 with option : OPTIONS=windowtype:tty don't show list of game commands, long description of commands, history of Nethack Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.set OPTIONS=windowtype:tty in nethack config file 2.start the game 3.Press "?" then "a" Actual Results: Cannot open help Expected Results: show help Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.2 6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1 /share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla /defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/lin ux/Gentoo ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apache2 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_ru lirc mad mikmod mmx m mx2 mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mysql ncurses nls nvidia oggvor bis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl sp ell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd threads truetype v4l v4l2 x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib" benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.fr 2004-08-21 05:02:14 0000 The problem is that since we use an external pager programm (cf bug #52122), the help file shouldn't be in the DLB (which can only be read with the internal pager). the simplest solution is doing a sed -i -e "s/DATNODLB =/DATNODLB = \$(DATHELP)/" Makefile if we use an external pager. wolf31o2@gentoo.org 2004-08-31 15:08:34 0000 I'll look into it mr_bones_@gentoo.org 2004-09-24 03:05:43 0000 Snatched. Reproduced the issue and tried the sed patch. Worked a lot better so I commited it.