After emerging SDL-perl-1.20.3 (current version in portage), frozen-bubble refuses to start with [SDL Init] Not a HASH reference at /usr/games/bin/frozen-bubble line 310. Re-Emerging frozen-bubble yields no errors, but doesn't help, either.
Debian has this bug fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251816 Their patch for it seems to be at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/patch-fb-sdlperl-1.20.3.diff?bug=251816&msg=3&att=1 (I don't know enough to make a patch for use in Gentoo, but hope this helps)
the patch mentioned in additional comment #1 works perfectly on my box. Might be worth adding to the ebuild.
Nooo vital application failure! ... but there is already a patch.. but my frozen bubble dies on line 59 use fb_stuff; bash-2.05b$ frozen-bubble Can't locate fb_stuff.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 .) at /usr/games/bin/frozen-bubble line 59. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/games/bin/frozen-bubble line 59. bash-2.05b$ vi /usr/games/bin/frozen-bubble
Created attachment 35832 [details] updated e-build using the mentioned patch
Added the patch to cvs. Thanks for the bug report.
The patch fixes only "frozen-bubble" but not "frozen-bubble-client". The client gives the same error at line 319 with sdl-perl 1.20.3
This bug isn't solved, please reopen it as the current ebuild in portage doesn't work. (v 1.18 2004/07/21 02:12:53)
My mistake, running /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/libperl_rebuilder and then emerging the indicated ebuilds solved the problem...