Gentoo may have not switched to warsow-2.0.1 yet, nonetheless it is useful to have this around when time comes - from what I see, it is a very common bug (and a showstopper too!): NOTE: The 2.0.1 version I am talking about is a copy of http://data.gpo.zugaina.org/games-overlay/games-fps/warsow/ to my local overlay. No problems with merging this one (while I had problems merging the 1.x version from :gentoo:). Problem ======= Upon starting warsow 2.0.1 with warsow I am greeted with a small nice window saying: Failed to load default refresh DLL Reason ====== Trying strace warsow I see that it stops at: open("/home/XXX/.warsow-2.0/libs/libftlib_i386.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/warsow/libs/libftlib_i386.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/home/XXX/.warsow-2.0/libs/libref_gl_i386.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/warsow/libs/libref_gl_i386.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) pipe([12, 13]) = 0 However, there exists a /usr/share/warsow/libs/libref_gl_i686.so -> /usr/libexec/warsow/libref_gl_i686.so and a /usr/share/warsow/libs/libftlib_i686.so -> /usr/libexec/warsow/libftlib_i686.so so why is warsow seeking the _386 versions of these libraries, instead of the _i686 ones? (I use '-march=pentium4' in CFLAGS in make.conf, that's why I have the 'i686' versions). That's a bug of warsow-2.0.1. Solution ======= I hate it so much, but I decided to give it a try with this ugly kludge: ln -s /usr/share/warsow/libs/libftlib_i686.so /usr/share/warsow/libs/libftlib_i386.so ln -s /usr/share/warsow/libs/libref_gl_i686.so /usr/share/warsow/libs/libref_gl_i386.so I did see a fullscreen window for a moment, but I got: Failed to load UI DLL so it seemed that more than that was needed: for lib in $(ls /usr/share/warsow/libs/*_i686.so); do b="$(basename "$lib" _i686.so)"; ln -s /usr/share/warsow/libs/${b}_i686.so /usr/share/warsow/libs/${b}_i386.so; done i.e. symlink *all* _i686.so libraries as targets of respective _i386.so ones. WOW! IT WORKED! Enjoy! :-)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 567392 ***
I've looked twice into bug 567392 and I still fail to see how this one is a duplicate of that one... ...but then, I guess I don't have to understand everything...
