I would like to request an ebuild for the game XBoing, at http://www.techrescue.org/xboing/. (Note: one sound file distributed with XBoing is "PG rated" if that matters - if so, to fix it, modify balllost.au.) Thanks!
ok, it's been added to cvs (but masked) ... reason being i can get it to compile, but then it refuses to run ... so whatever ;) http://cvs.gentoo.org/cg-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-games/xboing/xboing-2.4.ebuild?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
lets fix it up then :) joe: post your comments here please ?
Thank you for your work on this!!! I have been playing around with the ebuild (and the Debian version on another machine) and learned the following, which gets it to *almost* work. :) 1. For any display depth other than 8, the option -usedefcmap needs to be specified on the command line, or the game won't run. 2. There are a few minor problems with the audio, which is 90% of the fun of the game. :) I think I know how to fix all but one. a. It always tries to open /dev/audio; on my box at least /dev/audio doesn't exist, but one can either create a symlink from /dev/dsp, or (better) patch the code to write to /dev/dsp instead of /dev/audio. b. The -sound option must be specified on the command line in order for sound to work. c. The sound is too loud, and distorted, and the -maxvol option which I think is supposed to fix that seems to be ignored - I can't figure out anyplace in the code it is actually used. 3. "make install" doesn't install the man page - we need to "make install.man" as well. The Debian version has patches to init.c that fix problems 1 and 2(b) by making the -usedefcmap and -sound the defaults, and providing -nousedefcmap and -nosound as options to turn these off if desired. However, I don't know the best way to fix 2(a) since I don't know if /dev/dsp is standard on all Gentoo boxes, or whether it depends on which sound drivers are loaded. And I have no clue how to fix 2(c). Once again I appreciate your work on this! Joe
ok i grabbed the debian patch and customized it to make it Gentoo friendly ... this gives us 2.4-r1 which should solve all issues http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-games/xboing/xboing-2.4-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
