[Slackbuilds-users] (colour) moria updating and CMake template fail

David Chmelik davidnchmelik at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 10:48:59 UTC 2026


On 2/10/26 8:48 PM, David Chmelik wrote:
> On 2/10/26 7:42 PM, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>> Try removing the /strip from that command so it just reads:
>>
>> make install DESTDIR=$PKG
>>
>> It's a pretty widely accepted argument, but there will always be some 
>> projects that don't include it for whatever their reason is. This is 
>> why SBo provides templates and not requirements.
> It can't even, but Urchlay helped me fix: copy manually.
>
> There's a permissions/ownership problem getting able to make/save/read 
> game.sav, scores.dat.  New informal maintainer moved away from 
> UNIX-style: no more ~/.moria-save rather than a single system-wide 
> savefile in game's directory/folder. Originally I was told make 
> /usr/share/games/moria root:root.  I even touched 
> /usr/share/games/moria/scores.dat and made it games:games 777 and ran 
> as user in games group... sometimes can't create scores.dat... which 
> should've been system-wide accessible by all users.  New code messed 
> up entire multi-user/UNIX design of the game apparently.  I suspect 
> it's also Windows people.
>
> It also has 'code of conduct'.  I'm now questioning whether this 
> 'upgrade' is worth it... but if I can get it working, I guess I'll 
> submit.  Since it's GPL people are free to fork and otherwise conduct 
> themselves how they want.
That being said, here's my work in progress: 
http://davidchmelik.com/math/slackbuilds/wip/moria.tar.xz ( 
http://mirror.davidchmelik.com/math/slackbuilds/wip/moria.tar.xz ). I'd 
need help/advice how to get this working.  It worked at one time but I'm 
unsure how.

>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 9:35 PM David Chmelik <dchmelik at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:dchmelik at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     For most/all current operating systems, informal updated C++/colour
>>     UMoria (umoria.org <http://umoria.org>, colour addition on GitHub)
>>     is considered de facto:
>>     official maintainer Dr. David Grabiner hasn't updated decades... 
>> even
>>     homesite is gone years, despite he said he'll ask for it restored.
>>     Finally updating moria.Slackbuild with umoria-color (originally
>>     British
>>     project but Americans patched current sourcecode, renamed). I
>>     have no
>>     recollection where README I use came from, or if wasn't a short
>>     enough
>>     official so I copied Wikipedia (likely) though it's not how I'd do
>>     nowadays (improved). New dungeons-of-moria (umoria.org
>>     <http://umoria.org> version
>>     color-umoria is same except colour... they work together) is CMake
>>     project.  However using SlackBuilds.org's CMake template fails.
>>
>>              make: *** No rule to make target 'install/strip'. Stop.
>>
>>     The line is: make install/strip DESTDIR=$PKG.
>>              Is that correct or typographical error? Everything else but
>>     this is updated except linting sourcecode, package... kind of
>>     would like
>>     to keep historical documentation also; they changed format, but now
>>     looks like manpage (not included) maybe just gets compiled unless 
>> not
>>     used from template... is it okay to have both old and new
>>     sourcecode and
>>     restore manpage, etc., these newer developers ignore for annoying
>>     markdown?
>>
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