Bug 107006 – games-strategy/scorched3d, games-action/chromium, amongst others, require libsdl but do not list it as a dependency

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ben McIlwain 2005-09-23 09:15:00 UTC]

I attempted to compile games-strategy/scorched3d and games-action/chromium and 
neither worked.  They were giving me errors on undefined functions, namely sdl 
functions.  So I emerged media-libs/libsdl and they both compiled successfully.  
Apparently libsdl is a dependency for these (and other games), but do not 
officially show as a dependency, so if you don't have libsdl emerge will not 
show it as a dependency.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Try to compile the aforementioned games without libsdl installed.

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-09-23 09:27:17 UTC]

What?  Both the packages you mention list libsdl in DEPEND.

[Comment 2 Ben McIlwain 2005-09-23 09:30:13 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> What?  Both the packages you mention list libsdl in DEPEND.

I don't know what to say ... I obviously didn't have libsdl installed and yet 
these games tried to compile anyway.

Hrrmmm, maybe my system is just screwed up?

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-09-23 09:44:28 UTC]

>  maybe my system is just screwed up?

yes.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2005-09-23 18:00:21 UTC]

my guess is you upgraded DirectFB which broke libsdl which a re-emerge fixed

no idea really, no real info was posted