xmame is now at version 0.88. current version in portage is 0.86. the 0.86 version has a nasty bug in the OpenGL driver which causes some games to have a nonzero horizontal origin. this was fixed in 0.87. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
this release is going to need a fairly drastically-changed ebuild, as all the rendering targets have been merged into x11. SDL, OpenGL, Glide, DGA, XV, et all, are now one driver. unfortunately, this not only changes the makefile, but also causes problems with frontends.
Not that it matters right now as gxmame (even the CVS snapshot from the bugzilla) is still broken but there's a problem in the 0.88 ebuild in Portage. It's set up to put xml2info and chdman in /usr/games/lib/xmame which isn't in the PATH so gxmame can't find it. The solution is to modify line 175 of the ebuild so instead of reading: exeinto "${GAMES_LIBDIR}/${PN}" it becomes: exeinto "${GAMES_BINDIR}" That way it gets put into /usr/games/bin which is in the PATH (provided you're in the games group) and thus gxmame can find it. As I mentioned earlier though gxmame is still broken so this only gets you as far as being able to rebuild the game list but it's a start. Hopefully a patch will appear for gxmame soon.
yeah, I already know. Unless I see a good reason to put chman and xmlinfo in GAMES_BINDIR they're staying in GAMES_LIBDIR
yeah.
