125601 – bsd-games emerge fails on missing dictionary (with workaround)

Bug 125601 - bsd-games emerge fails on missing dictionary (with workaround)

Summary: bsd-games emerge fails on missing dictionary (with workaround)

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124223

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Games

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Reported:	2006-03-09 06:57 UTC by Nicholas Doyle
Modified:	2006-03-09 07:57 UTC (History)
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Description Nicholas Doyle 2006-03-09 06:57:04 UTC

When emerging bsd-games, the make script fails when it finds that /usr/share/dict/words (used for boggle) does not exist. This makes me believe that either bsd-games is missing a dependancy. The other option I believe (but am less sure about because of my unfamiliarity with cracklib) is that cracklib is supposed to provide this dictionary. I am using the ~amd64 cracklib so I am not sure about the stable one but this version of cracklib provides a /usr/share/dict/cracklib-small file which appears to be a dictionary that allows bsd-games to compile if a 'words' symlink is made. I am not sure what package is actually supposed to provide the /usr/share/dict/words file but I don't have it and it is not being brought in as a dependancy.

Comment 1 Nicholas Doyle 2006-03-09 07:57:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124223 ***