After updating dev-libs/xerces, glest doesn't work anymore. I had this before and after re-emerging glest it ran OK again. But revrep-rebuild doesn't find glest, which is missing a library, I guess because it doesn't check the /usr/share/games/glest/lib dir... $ glest ./glest: error while loading shared libraries: libxerces-c.so.26: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory # revdep-rebuild -p [...cut...] Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. $ ldd /usr/share/games/glest/lib/glest linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xb7f2d000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7eda000) libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1 (0xb7e6c000) libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0xb7df3000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7dd0000) libxerces-c.so.26 => not found libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0xb7da9000) [...cut...]
By default, revdep-rebuild won't even search GAMES_BINDIR or GAMES_LIBDIR. Perhaps the games eclass could add those to SEARCH_DIRS in gamesenv() or to a new file in /etc/revdep-rebuild.
Created attachment 87296 [details, diff] Patch for glest-2.0.0 ebuild /usr/games/bin and /usr/games/lib are currently searched by revdep-rebuild. What is not searched in this case is /usr/share/games/glest/lib. Attached patch for the glest-2.0.0 ebuild installs a SEARCH_DIRS directive into the /etc/revdep-rebuild directory.
You're right, I suppose it gets that from PATH and LDPATH, I just assumed it only checked SEARCH_DIRS.
I think this is not the fault of revdep-rebuild, but it's the fault of the glest ebuild! The directory /usr/share is supposed to only include architecture independent files, so no binary executables or libs. Now see: # file /usr/share/games/glest/lib/glest /usr/share/games/glest/lib/glest: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped This was the case in glest-1.2.1.2 and is now the case again in glest-2.0.0! I think the easiest way to fix this is to let the ebuild move /usr/share/games/glest/lib/glest to /usr/games/lib/ and create a softlink /usr/share/games/glest/lib/glest which points to /usr/games/lib/glest. This way, /usr/share would not only get rid of a binary but revdep-rebuild would also have no problem finding the executable anymore! Furthermore, (a bit off topic, but) I see the directory /usr/share/doc/glest-2.0.0 is empty. # equery f glest |grep doc /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/glest-2.0.0 I don't know if there is a special reason for this, but if there isn't, the ebuild can skip the creation of that directory too!
Ideally, the game would write to $HOME and wouldn't need a wrapper.
Created attachment 94013 [details, diff] glest-2.0.0-home.patch I think this works.
Created attachment 94014 [details] glest-2.0.0.ebuild
Created attachment 94914 [details] glest-2.0.0-r1.ebuild Use 2.0.0 data.
Should be fixed by glest-2.0.0-r1, thanks to Tristan Heaven
