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<FONT FACE="Verdana">I think lightcubed agreed to host bf:v again according to andreas. If you need another alternative, let me know.<BR>
Nice to hear you’re trying a lot of build environments. - Since you’re using a mac - A Mac server build would be VERY Cool (Client obviously is my wet dream :) <BR>
If you need more build/test environments, let me know – I have nearly every linux/bsd flavour in my lab.<BR>
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I’m verifying my ldconfig env, I don’t see any issues thus far.<BR>
Nice to have you around, Peter.<BR>
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On 3/10/04 7:50 AM, "Peter Chang" <peter.chang@dicecanada.com> wrote:<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">From: Andreas Fredriksson <BR>
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Vietnam dedicated server?</FONT> <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">> To be honest I wouldn't know. What I do know is that there's a very talented</FONT> <BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">> gentleman helping the DICE Canada team with the Linux server so it's up to</FONT> <BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">> that office to make arrangements for releases.</FONT> <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">still not an 'official' notice, but i wanted send an update</FONT> <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">first, i am a contractor, not a dice employee, and as such no arrangments have been made for me staying past the initial delivery date. any bugs are all my fault :-) (we'll get to the shortcomings that i know about in a third or fourth).<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">second, i can confirm that andy berdan (andy.berdan@dicecanada.com) is the owner of the bfv dedicated servers (win32 and linux) after yesterday's brain dump.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">third, ea wasn't keen (see point one on why i don't know the actual wording used) on early releasing linux servers. their own testing of the linux stuff has been zero.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">fourth, would it be possible for the person (or company) hosting the bf1942 stuff to host the bfv files? either way could they send me (probably best not to spam the entire list) mail at either the dice or cs address so that i (andy's on vacation now and will likely be so until after the ok) can arrange something.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">fifth, i tried to make the bfv server experience live up to what you've come to expect having andreas and joakim's 1.6, but there are some differences that come to mind. the two biggies are packaging and remote admin.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">i followed the 1.6 strategy of shipping both dynamic and static binaries w/ one difference. the bfv1942 .static is completely static. ld complained that some symbol (i can't find it in my notes right now) wasn't available in the libc.a version. my understanding of the issue is that some systems either don't have dynamic versions or have differnet versions of libstdc++. i play some linker games and get the following from ldd. is this ok?<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40020000)</FONT> <BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4005f000)</FONT> <BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400b1000)</FONT> <BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400b4000)</FONT> <BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401e6000)</FONT> <BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)</FONT> <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">additionally, i only really tested this on my systems here: debian 2.2.x on a 1.7 p4 and mandrake 2.4.x on virtual pc on mac os x :-) like bf1942 it doesn't do anything really whacky (systemwise :-), but it would be good to get a sanity check from the viewing public.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">remote admin -</FONT> <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">andreas mentioned the remote console to me before leaving, but not knowing how to test it i just asked around here. no one around here really knew either so all did was connect, run a few commands, and quit. needless to say this was not sufficient. i've moslty locally merged all of the remote console fixes, but this will probably not be in the 1.0 release (win32 or linux).<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">questions/comments/ideas/flames?</FONT> <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">\p</FONT> <BR>
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