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I installed freeciv-sdl 2.4.1 using MacPorts on Mac OSX 10.6.8. In freeciv-sdl version 2.3.x, all I had to do to start a game was typing freeciv-sdl on the command line and the game user interface would start. However when I do this now, I get message as below. Does it need an input file nowadays?

freeciv-sdl: no input files given
usage: freeciv-sdl [options] [filenames].
Available options are:
- process stdin
-l list
-o name output to file 'name' (default is "luac.out")
-p parse only
-s strip debug information
-v show version information
-- stop handling options

1) That's not something our (official sources from freeciv project) sdl-client would do. So it sounds something that the person who has made that Mac Port has added.
2) So there's new Mac OS X version made by someone? The latest official build (and last I know at all) was for 2.3.0 as seen from www.freeciv.org main page.

thank you for your reply:
1) I also installed freeciv-sdl 2.3.2 using MacPorts and that worked fine by just typing 'freeciv-sdl' in a terminal, so I thought that it was maybe related to changes in freeciv program names or how programs are started introduced in 2.4.x

2) The freeciv-sdl I was using since 2.3.0 was provided by MacPorts, kind of package manager for automatically fetching sources and compiling of open source software, see http://www.macports.org/ and http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=na ... tr=freeciv. Once the base MacPorts system is installed one would do on a terminal:

$ sudo port install freeciv
---> Computing dependencies for freeciv
---> Fetching archive for freeciv
---> Attempting to fetch freeciv-2.4.1_1.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from packages.macports.org/freeciv
---> Fetching distfiles for freeciv
---> Verifying checksums for freeciv
---> Extracting freeciv
---> Applying patches to freeciv
---> Configuring freeciv
---> Building freeciv
---> Staging freeciv into destroot
---> Installing freeciv @2.4.1_1
---> Activating freeciv @2.4.1_1

(I prefer the freeciv SDL client as it does not require X11 to be started on the Mac and also it is nice in full-screen mode without any space used up by sidebars etc).

It's not very helpful that the MacPorts freeciv page you provided lists "nomaintainer" as the maintainer. From the https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk ... v/Portfile it seems that it indeed has our sourceforge src release as master file, but also applies patch called "patch-client-options.c.diff".. which I think is this: https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk ... ons.c.diff Doesn't explain what you are experiencing.

At this point this should go to our bug tracker: http://gna.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=freeciv

....

and I already see what's the problem. It's a bug in freeciv alright (and now I wonder how it doesn't affect everyone). I'll create the bug ticket and explain there.

Ticket now created: bug #21399