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i compiled Bzflag 2.99 & boom, i lost bzfs 2.0.10! i really need it! any way i can get it back?

Ty
Ashgadgets

You can have both, but you'll need to install them into separate directories. Since you're compiling, I'm assuming you're running Linux. I'm also assuming you compiled your 2.0.10 installation. Most package managers put the server in /usr/bin/, but if you compile it, it puts it in /usr/local/bin/

All you have to do when you compile is make a separate directory for one of them. Something like /home/yourusername/bzflag2.99

Then, when you compile, add --prefix=/home/yourusername/bzflag2.99/ and it will put the binaries in there on the make install step. To run them, just cd to the directory, and do ./bin/bzfs to start up the 2.99 version bzfs.

It sounds like you overwrote your 2.0.10 installation, so you'll have to recompile 2.0.10

I build and run both versions on my server. You could do something like this for 2.0.x: Plugins would be built, and when you run 'make install', they would be placed in /usr/local/lib/bzflag

Then for trunk code (2.99.x), you could use this: Plugins would be built, and when you run 'make install', they would be placed in /usr/local/lib/bzflag3 (so they don't overwrite the plugins for 2.0.x). Also, all of the binaries would have a 3 after them, so you would run 'bzfs' for 2.0.x, and 'bzfs3' for 2.99.x. (same goes for bzflag and bzadmin)