Bug 264971 – games-puzzle/enigma-1.01 needs dev-libs/xerces-c-3.0.1 ICU useflag set

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Small_Penguin 2009-04-05 14:10:10 UTC]

It seems games-puzzle/enigma-1.01 needs the icu useflag set for xerces-c. If xerces-c is compiled without icu, then the game will not start, spewing up some nice messages (see Actual Results).

It might be possible that this error message does not occur when nls useflag for enigma is not set, but I did not test this.

I think the ebuild should take care of this dependency if possible.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile enigma with nls support enabled.
   It draws in dev-libs/xerces-c-3.0.1 without icu useflag set
2. Start enigma.

Actual Results:  
Could not open catalog:
 XercesMessages_enUS.cat
 or xercesMessages_en_US.cat
Cannot load message domain

Behold the fucking error messages. Game does not start.


Expected Results:  
Start the game (for playing).


Solution:

USE='icu' emerge dev-libs/xerces-c -v1

Interesting `Message for package xerces-c':
* This package can use iconv or icu for loading messages
* and transcoding, but not both. ICU will precede.

After this, the game will start fine.

[Comment 1 Dieter Ries 2009-06-29 15:43:47 UTC]

I can confirm that, exactly the same behaviour here.

[Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-06-29 16:32:01 UTC]

added a use-based dep.

[Comment 3 Martin Väth 2009-06-29 20:00:08 UTC]

If xerces-c is compiled without iconv, then the game starts just fine
(as the other poster, I had compiled enigma with USE=nls).

So I ask to change the dependency to

|| ( dev-libs/xerces-c[icu] || dev-libs/xerces-c[-icu,-iconv] )

This would avoid the dependency from the terribly huge dev-libs/icu package
which is currently the case...

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-06-29 20:19:34 UTC]

sure.  updated the dep in portage.