'emerge -pv six' gives [ebuild R ] games-board/six-0.5.2 -arts* -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama 0 kB I do not have a sound card & have removed all sound pkgs from my system. 'emerge six' thereafter gives (many lines into the configure step): checking for KDE paths... defaults checking for dcopidl... /usr/kde/3.4/bin/dcopidl checking for dcopidl2cpp... /usr/kde/3.4/bin/dcopidl2cpp checking for mcopidl... not found configure: error: The important program mcopidl was not found! Please check whether you installed aRts correctly. !!! ERROR: games-board/six-0.5.2 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 158, Exitcode 1 !!! died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure Emerging 'six' with the USE flag '-arts' should not fail like this. In /etc/make.conf I have USE="nvidia usb -alsa -arts -avi -berkdb -encode -esd -flac -f77 -libg++ -mad -mikmod -mp3 -mysql -nls -ogg -oss -postgres -quicktime -sox -vorbis -xmms" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. At CLI enter 'emerge six' with '-arts' in make.conf USE flags 2. Watch unfolding configure step 3. Encounter error message as above Actual Results: The emerge halted Expected Results: The emerge should have completed despite the absence of the 'arts' pkg
the USE=arts is crap that comes from the kde eclass, nothing we can really do about it ive added arts to DEPEND
(In reply to comment #1) > the USE=arts is crap that comes from the kde eclass, nothing we can really do > about it > > ive added arts to DEPEND I've checked the 'six' e-build & it inherits 'kde'. I checked the 'kde.eclass' & the only mentions of 'arts' don't seem to imply any requirement nor should they: I have a lot of other KDE apps installed & use the desktop full-time & don't have 'arts' installed or any other sound packages. The problem seems to lie in the 'configure' step of 'six' itself. I already have 'six' installed & tried to re-install it after it was listed by 'emerge -pv --newuse world' due to '-arts*' (I had originally installed it before removing the sound packages), but nothing else forced a re-install: it opens & plays correctly. Is it not possible to fix the package configure step, if that's the problem ?
Got a patch?
(In reply to comment #3) > Got a patch? Sorry, no, I wish I had, but it's inside a long configure script & I'm not a programmer, not even one who writes 27 000 line bash scripts. I unpacked kdegames-3.4.1 & six-0.5.2 from /usr/portage/distfiles/ & searched the 'configure' files for 'dcopidl', the missing item(s). Similar lines concerning that item occur in both, but something in Kdegames configure avoids the problem -- presumably lines which skip that stuff if '-arts' is set -- , whereas it is missing in Six configure. If anyone has any useful suggestions to guide me, I'm willing to investigate those 2 files further & see if I can get Six configure to complete successfully by commenting something in that file. However without a bit of help, I don't believe I'm upto searching the 27 000 lines by myself. It's a silly bug in a small game, probably due to upstream inexperience, but it should be fixable & I'm willing to try to do my bit.
i didnt test that ... does six actually compile w/out arts ? it's easier to override configure, but pointless if the source actually needs arts functionality ...
(In reply to comment #5) > i didnt test that ... does six actually compile w/out arts ? it's easier to > override configure, but pointless if the source actually needs arts > functionality ... The version I have working was compiled before I removed Arts & sound. I don't know whether it would compile without Arts: there are packages which compile & run successfully after '--nodeps', so ebuild packagers don't always know what's what. If you can give me some advice on how to edit the compile script, I'm willing to try compiling Six without Arts & see what happens. My problem is that I really can't face trying to puzzle out what it is in the 27 000 lines which needs altering to avoid Arts. The Kdegames configure has something which does respond to '-arts', but clearly the Six configure script doesn't. My guess is that the cause is an inexperienced upstream script-writer, but the only way to find out is to change the Six script & see: after all, why would a simple game like that need sound of any kind ? I could try using the generic Kdegames script, but that might run into all sorts of different problems.
