Bug 117734 – Ebuild for pingus-bin

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2006-01-04 06:12:58 UTC]

This ebuild is for install a binary version of pingus for amd64 systems that cannot compile it (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85454). It could work on x86 arch also, but I'm only ckecked it on my amd64 machine. Read the attachment

Thanks :)

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2006-01-04 06:13:38 UTC]

Created attachment 76152 [details]
pingus-bin-0.6.0.ebuild

Ebuild for pingus-bin

[Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 08:31:35 UTC]

No thanks.  Since the source is available, it should be used to build, even on amd64.  Any challenges in that regard can be addressed by the amd64 team.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2006-01-04 10:33:24 UTC]

Have you compiled succesfully pingus 0.6 on amd64?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85454

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2006-01-04 10:48:06 UTC]

Should I reassign this bug to [e-mail]?

Thanks for the information

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 10:52:06 UTC]

No.

The point is that pingus is open source.  Rather than have a binary distribution, we require that the source is patched instead.  We will not add a binary package for a game where the source is available.

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2006-01-04 11:10:03 UTC]

But the source doesn't generate code that run on amd64. I asked it at [e-mail] and:

Pacho wrote:
Subject: Pingus 0.6.0 segfaults compiling it with gcc 3.4

Hi!

I cannot run pingusd if it has been compiled with gcc 3.4. I think that it's a
bug, and there are many people that cannot run it.
I am using gentoo 2005.0, but there are many ubuntu users with the same
problem.

I have reported it at:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85454 (please read all this post for
more information about the problem)
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-386555-highlight-.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-323820-highlight-.html

Thanks a lot for your help and sorry my poor english
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They reply:

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:00:30 -0400
From: Jason Green <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Pingus 0.6.0 segfaults compiling it with gcc 3.4

DO NOT COMPILE Pingus 0.6.0 with gcc 3.4 on a 64-bit machine.  It
apparently doesn't work.

Follow the instructions about downloading the binary here:

http://www.cmhousing.net/pingus/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CurrentRelease

[Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 11:44:15 UTC]

Then patch it... I don't care what the upstream developers say... it *can* be patched to work.  We will not add the binary version.  You're more than welcome to use it yourself, but don't expect us to support it.