Bug 884629

Summary:	games-roguelike/dwarf-fortress requires libsdl[X]
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Erik Mackdanz <stasibear>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	ionen
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Erik Mackdanz gentoo-dev

2022-12-06 22:36:36 UTC

without libsdl[X] the package compiles fine.  At runtime there is:

erik@carbon ~ $ dwarf-fortress
Alert Error:
SDL initialization failure: No available video device

SDL initialization failure: No available video device

... this happened with and without USE=gui

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  USE=-X emerge -1 media-libs/libsdl
2. emerge dwarf-fortress
3. run dwarf-fortress
Actual Results:  
SDL initialization failure: No available video device

Expected Results:  
UI launches the game

Comment 1 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2022-12-06 22:47:34 UTC

It works fine if you have /any/ video output enabled, e.g. libsdl[-X,libcaca] works. X would just be forcing one in particular and this should be left to user choice.

You can also enable the curses-based output that doesn't use libsdl for display but is not default.