Bug 107006

Summary:	games-strategy/scorched3d, games-action/chromium, amongst others, require libsdl but do not list it as a dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ben McIlwain <cyde>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

2005-09-23 09:44:28 UTC

>  maybe my system is just screwed up?

yes.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

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