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4.3 Show options

4.3.1 show-build-abs-srcdir

Command-line option: --show-build-abs-srcdir

Shows the top source directory on the machine where the binary was compiled, as an absolute path.

4.3.2 show-build-bin-id

Command-line option: --show-build-bin-id

Shows the internal ’bin-id’ value. This value does not mean anything in itself but it’s supposed to change each time you compile the game.

4.3.3 show-build-bugs-url

Command-line option: --show-build-bugs-url

Shows the URL to make bug reports.

4.3.4 show-build-cflags

Command-line option: --show-build-cflags

Shows what value you should put in ’CFLAGS’ (environment variable) if you want to compile programs that use Liquid War 6 as a library, and include ’liquidwar6.h’.

4.3.5 show-build-codename

Command-line option: --show-build-codename

Shows the codename associated with this version, generally the name of someone famous who is war-related (a general, an emperor...).

4.3.6 show-build-configure-args

Command-line option: --show-build-configure-args

Shows the arguments that have been passed to the GNU Autoconf ’./configure’ script when building the program. This can be very usefull if you want to know how the program has been built.

4.3.7 show-build-copyright

Command-line option: --show-build-copyright

Shows a very short copyright notice.

4.3.8 show-build-datadir

Command-line option: --show-build-datadir

Shows the ’datadir’ value as passed to the GNU Autoconf ’./configure’ script when compiling the program. Default is ’/usr/local/share’. This is the generic, non Liquid War 6 specific data directory. Liquid War 6 related data is stored elsewhere (usually in a sub-directory) see the ’data-dir’ switch for more information. ’datadir’ is not ’data-dir’. That’s the point.

4.3.9 show-build-date

Command-line option: --show-build-date

Shows the date when the binary was compiled.

4.3.10 show-build-docdir

Command-line option: --show-build-docdir

Shows the ’docdir’ value as passed to the GNU Autoconf ’./configure’ script when compiling the program. Default is ’/usr/local/share/doc/liquidwar6’.

4.3.11 show-build-enable-allinone

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-allinone

Shows wether the ’allinone’ option has been chosen when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’.

4.3.12 show-build-enable-console

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-console

Shows wether the console has been enabled when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’ and also on the presence of ncurses and readline.

4.3.13 show-build-enable-fullstatic

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-fullstatic

Shows wether the ’fullstatic’ option has been chosen when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’.

4.3.14 show-build-enable-gcov

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-gcov

Shows wether the game was build with suitable informations for gcov. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’.

4.3.15 show-build-enable-gprof

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-gprof

Shows wether the game was build with suitable informations for gprof. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’.

4.3.16 show-build-enable-gtk

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-gtk

Shows wether GTK+ support has been enabled when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’ and also on the presence of GTK+ headers and libs. It uses pkg-config to detect it.

4.3.17 show-build-enable-instrument

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-instrument

Shows wether the game was build with the ’-finstrument-functions’ GCC switch. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’.

4.3.18 show-build-enable-mod-caca

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-mod-caca

Shows wether the mod-caca graphical backend has been enabled when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’ and also on the presence of libcaca related libraries.

4.3.19 show-build-enable-mod-csound

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-mod-csound

Shows wether the mod-csound audio backend has been enabled when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’ and also on the presence of the csound library.

4.3.20 show-build-enable-mod-gl1

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-mod-gl1

Shows wether the mod-gl1 graphical backend has been enabled when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’ and also on the presence of SDL and OpenGL related libraries.

4.3.21 show-build-enable-mod-gles2

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-mod-gles2

Shows wether the mod-gles2 graphical backend has been enabled when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’ and also on the presence of SDL and OpenGL ES related libraries.

4.3.22 show-build-enable-mod-http

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-mod-http

Shows wether the mod-http network backend has been enabled when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’ and also on the presence of libCurl.

4.3.23 show-build-enable-mod-ogg

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-mod-ogg

Shows wether the mod-ogg audio backend has been enabled when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’ and also on the presence of SDL and related libraries.

4.3.24 show-build-enable-mod-soft

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-mod-soft

Shows wether the mod-soft graphical backend has been enabled when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’ and also on the presence of SDL related libraries.

4.3.25 show-build-enable-openmp

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-openmp

Shows wether the program was built with OpenMP support. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’.

4.3.26 show-build-enable-optimize

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-optimize

Shows wether the ’optimize’ option has been chosen when building the game. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’.

4.3.27 show-build-enable-paranoid

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-paranoid

Shows wether the game was build with paranoid memory management. This is for debugging purposes, the default already includes some controls, with turned it’s really... paranoid.

4.3.28 show-build-enable-profiler

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-profiler

Shows wether the game was build with Google Profiler support. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’.

4.3.29 show-build-enable-valgrind

Command-line option: --show-build-enable-valgrind

Shows wether the game was build with valgrind later use in mind. This depends on parameters passed to ’./configure’.

4.3.30 show-build-endianness

Command-line option: --show-build-endianness

Returns the endianness. ’little’ corresponds to x86-like systems, ’big’ to ppc-like systems.

4.3.31 show-build-gcc-version

Command-line option: --show-build-gcc-version

Returns the version of the GNU C compiler which was used to compile the program.

4.3.32 show-build-gnu

Command-line option: --show-build-gnu

Returns 1 (true) if host OS is a GNU system, or at least has been considered as such when compiling, 0 (false) if not.

4.3.33 show-build-gp2x

Command-line option: --show-build-gp2x

Returns 1 (true) if host is a GP2X, 0 (false) if not.

4.3.34 show-build-home-url

Command-line option: --show-build-home-url

Shows the URL of the program, its homepage.

4.3.35 show-build-host-cpu

Command-line option: --show-build-host-cpu

Shows the host CPU, as defined by ’host_cpu’ in GNU Autoconf.

4.3.36 show-build-host-os

Command-line option: --show-build-host-os

Shows the host OS, as defined by ’host_os’ in GNU Autoconf.

4.3.37 show-build-hostname

Command-line option: --show-build-hostname

Shows the name of the host where the binary was compiled.

4.3.38 show-build-includedir

Command-line option: --show-build-includedir

Shows the ’includedir’ value as passed to the GNU Autoconf ’./configure’ script when compiling the program. Default is ’/usr/local/include’.

4.3.39 show-build-ldflags

Command-line option: --show-build-ldflags

Shows what value you should put in ’LDFLAGS’ (environment variable) if you want to link programs against libliquidwar6.

4.3.40 show-build-libdir

Command-line option: --show-build-libdir

Shows the ’libdir’ value as passed to the GNU Autoconf ’./configure’ script when compiling the program. Default is ’/usr/local/lib’. This is the generic, non Liquid War 6 specific library directory. Dedicated Liquid War 6 modules are stored elsewhere (usually in a sub-directory) see the ’mod-dir’ switch for more information.

4.3.41 show-build-license

Command-line option: --show-build-license

Shows the license of the program (GNU GPL v3 or later).

4.3.42 show-build-localedir

Command-line option: --show-build-localedir

Shows the ’localedir’ value as passed to the GNU Autoconf ’./configure’ script when compiling the program. Default is ’/usr/local/share/locale’.

4.3.43 show-build-mac-os-x

Command-line option: --show-build-mac-os-x

Returns 1 (true) if host OS is Mac OS X, 0 (false) if not.

4.3.44 show-build-md5sum

Command-line option: --show-build-md5sum

Shows the MD5 checksum, which has been calculated from the C source files. Complementary with ’show-build-stamp’.

4.3.45 show-build-ms-windows

Command-line option: --show-build-ms-windows

Returns 1 (true) if host OS is Microsoft Windows, 0 (false) if not.

4.3.46 show-build-package-id

Command-line option: --show-build-package-id

Shows the package tarname with its version, that is, ’liquidwar6-<version>

4.3.47 show-build-package-name

Command-line option: --show-build-package-name

Shows the package name, that is, ’Liquid War 6’.

4.3.48 show-build-package-string

Command-line option: --show-build-package-string

Shows the package string, that is, ’Liquid War 6 <version>

4.3.49 show-build-package-tarname

Command-line option: --show-build-package-tarname

Shows the package tarname, that is, liquidwar6.

4.3.50 show-build-pointer-size

Command-line option: --show-build-pointer-size

Returns the pointer size, in bytes. Should be 4 on 32-bit systems and 8 on 64-bit systems.

4.3.51 show-build-prefix

Command-line option: --show-build-prefix

Shows the ’prefix’ value as passed to the GNU Autoconf ’./configure’ script when compiling the program. Default is ’/usr/local’.

4.3.52 show-build-stamp

Command-line option: --show-build-stamp

Shows the build stamp. A very usefull value, more precise than the version to track down binaries. It is incremented each time the core C code is updated. It won’t reflect all the programs for it does not take scripts in account, but if you are running a work-in-progress version, it might be very convenient to use this to know what your are running exactly. It’s also used as the revision number (the third number afer MAJOR.MINOR).

4.3.53 show-build-time

Command-line option: --show-build-time

Shows the time when the binary was compiled.

4.3.54 show-build-top-srcdir

Command-line option: --show-build-top-srcdir

Shows the top source directory on the machine where the binary was compiled, as a (possibly) relative path.

4.3.55 show-build-unix

Command-line option: --show-build-unix

Returns 1 (true) if host OS is a UNIX system, or at least has been considered as such when compiling, 0 (false) if not.

4.3.56 show-build-version

Command-line option: --show-build-version

Shows the version. Note that this is different from the standard GNU ’version’ command line option which shows a complete message with a short copyright notice. This one will just return the version, without the package tarname or anything else.

4.3.57 show-build-version-base

Command-line option: --show-build-version-base

Shows the version base. This is basically MAJOR.MINOR and determines the level of compatibility of the program. Two programs with the same base version should be able to communicate on the network, share data files and even binary modules if on the same platform.

4.3.58 show-build-version-major

Command-line option: --show-build-version-major

Shows the major version number. This is just used to differenciate alpha/beta releases (using 0) from stable releases (using 6).

4.3.59 show-build-version-minor

Command-line option: --show-build-version-minor

Shows the minor version number. This is manually increased at each significant, public release of the game.

4.3.60 show-build-x86

Command-line option: --show-build-x86

Tells wether the CPU belongs to the x86 family.

4.3.61 show-config-file

Command-line option: --show-config-file

Shows the config file path. Default is ’$HOME/.liquidwar6/config.xml’.

4.3.62 show-cwd

Command-line option: --show-cwd

Shows the current working directory, the value that the pwd command would return.

4.3.63 show-data-dir

Command-line option: --show-data-dir

Shows the data directory path. This is where the games searches for most of its data,the most important exception being maps, which are stored elsewhere. Default is ’/usr/local/share/liquidwar6-<version>/data’.

4.3.64 show-default-config-file

Command-line option: --show-default-config-file

Shows the default config file path. Default is ’$HOME/.liquidwar6/config.xml’.

4.3.65 show-default-data-dir

Command-line option: --show-default-data-dir

Shows the default data directory path. This is where the games searches for most of its data,the most important exception being maps, which are stored elsewhere. Default is ’/usr/local/share/liquidwar6-<version>/data’.

4.3.66 show-default-log-file

Command-line option: --show-default-log-file

Shows the default log file path. Default is ’$HOME/.liquidwar6/log.csv’.

4.3.67 show-default-map-dir

Command-line option: --show-default-map-dir

Shows the default map directory. This is where builtin maps are stored. Default is ’/usr/local/share/liquidwar6-<version>/map’.

4.3.68 show-default-map-path

Command-line option: --show-default-map-path

Shows the default map search path. This is where the game searches for maps. It’s the combination of command-line arguments and builtin paths. Might return more directories than the one specified in a single ’map-path=dir1:dir2’ argument.

4.3.69 show-default-mod-dir

Command-line option: --show-default-mod-dir

Shows the default module directory path. This is where all dynamically loaded modules are stored. Default is ’/usr/local/lib/liquidwar6-<version>’.

4.3.70 show-default-music-dir

Command-line option: --show-default-music-dir

Shows the default music directory. This is where builtin musics are stored. Default is ’/usr/local/share/liquidwar6-<version>/music’.

4.3.71 show-default-music-path

Command-line option: --show-default-music-path

Shows the default music search path. This is where the game searches for musics. It’s the combination of command-line arguments and builtin paths. Might return more directories than the one specified in a single ’music-path=dir1:dir2’ argument.

4.3.72 show-default-prefix

Command-line option: --show-default-prefix

Shows the default prefix used. This should logically be the value passed to the GNU Autoconf ./configure script when building the game. Most other path are deduced from this one. Default is ’/usr/local’.

4.3.73 show-default-script-file

Command-line option: --show-default-script-file

Shows the default main script file path. This file is very important, since the program is more or less a hudge scheme interpreter, and this file is the file loaded by Guile. In short, it is the main program. Default is ’/usr/local/share/liquidwar6-<version>/script/liquidwar6.scm’.

4.3.74 show-default-user-dir

Command-line option: --show-default-user-dir

Shows the default user directory path. This is where run-time data, config files, log files, are stored. Default is ’$HOME/.liquidwar6/’.

4.3.75 show-log-file

Command-line option: --show-log-file

Shows the log file path. Default is ’$HOME/.liquidwar6/log.csv’.

4.3.76 show-map-dir

Command-line option: --show-map-dir

Shows the map directory. This is where builtin maps are stored. Default is ’/usr/local/share/liquidwar6-<version>/map’.

4.3.77 show-map-path

Command-line option: --show-map-path

Shows the map search path. This is where the game searches for maps. It’s the combination of command-line arguments and builtin paths. Might return more directories than the one specified in a single ’map-path=dir1:dir2’ argument.

4.3.78 show-mod-dir

Command-line option: --show-mod-dir

Shows the module directory path. This is where all dynamically loaded modules are stored. Default is ’/usr/local/lib/liquidwar6-<version>’.

4.3.79 show-music-dir

Command-line option: --show-music-dir

Shows the music directory. This is where builtin maps are stored. Default is ’/usr/local/share/liquidwar6-<version>/music’.

4.3.80 show-music-path

Command-line option: --show-music-path

Shows the music search path. This is where the game searches for musics. It’s the combination of command-line arguments and builtin paths. Might return more directories than the one specified in a single ’music-path=dir1:dir2’ argument.

4.3.81 show-prefix

Command-line option: --show-prefix

Shows the prefix used. This should logically be the value passed to the GNU Autoconf ./configure script when building the game. Most other path are deduced from this one. Default is ’/usr/local’.

4.3.82 show-run-dir

Command-line option: --show-run-dir

Shows the run directory, usually the path where the binary is. It depends on how and where the program is launched. It is guessed from the argc/argv values at runtime.

4.3.83 show-script-file

Command-line option: --show-script-file

Shows the main script file path. This file is very important, since the program is more or less a hudge scheme interpreter, and this file is the file loaded by Guile. In short, it is the main program. Default is ’/usr/local/share/liquidwar6-<version>/script/liquidwar6.scm’.

4.3.84 show-user-dir

Command-line option: --show-user-dir

Shows the user directory path. This is where run-time data, config files, log files, are stored. Default is ’$HOME/.liquidwar6/’.


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