Problems with building due to Boggle dictionary

[molleraj]

After running ./configure and trying to make in both Lubuntu 16.04 and Cygwin, building stops with this issue:

make: *** No rule to make target '/home/abraham/BSDGames/temp-dictionary', needed by 'boggle/mkdict/dictionary'. Stop.

Is this a problem with the makefile or with ./configure? sudo make does not help either. Thanks.

[saufrecht]

It looks like it may be related to the debian patch tha comes with bsdgames source:

bsdgames-2.17/debian/patches/Custom-configuration-of-Debian-package-build.patch

+# Always use the same wordlist for boggle, and don't use web2, it's too
+# big. Instead, use the union of the wenglish and wbritish wordlists.
+bsd_games_cfg_dictionary_src=`pwd`/temp-dictionary

configure defaults to /usr/share/dict/words:
game_ask boggle "Dictionary for boggle (CHECK ANSWER)" dictionary_src /usr/share/dict/words

With the patch, it instead looks for temp-dictionary. But nothing in the build chain provides a rule to create temp-dictionary. So the make fails.

A workaround: manually create temp-dictionary. For example:

ln -s /usr/share/dict/words temp-dictionary
make