Egoboo Forum

linuxfan · Grub Bug Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 6

Hi,

I'm a new developer on SourceMage GNU/Linux and I've developed a package install for egoboo. However, when I build this game manually or using my installer, egoboo will never come up. I'm sure I've gotten something wrong, but getting no messages from egoboo makes it difficult to troubleshoot.

SMGL is a source-based distro. I'd very much like to run and test egoboo. Please reply with any questions to:

linuxfan@sourcemage.org

Thanks. Any help will be appreciated.

Agent of Dread · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject:

Wow, a package you compiled on your own? Amazing!
Alas, seeing as I am a Windows user I don't have much I can do...
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Zefz · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject:

Hmm, we really need some Linux knowledgeable programmers around here. So what is your problem exactly? Do you manage to build the Linux source thats on sourceforge.net? (Or the latest SVN revision on the project site).
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linuxfan · Grub Bug Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 6

Zefz,

Yes, I grabbed the egoboo-2.7.5 tarball and am using it. It compiled with no errors, but does nothing when egoboo is run. There is no message or window of any kind.

The built tarball and my modified package do exactly the same thing: nothing.

A secondary problem is that according to the LHS

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/

games should be installed in /usr/games, not /usr/bin. I simply modify the Makefile.unix before beginning the build, but it would be much nicer if the install occurs in the proper place to begin with. Namely, I move /usr/libexec/egoboo to /usr/games/egoboo-bin and /usr/bin/egoboo to /usr/games/egoboo. This is a more standard install IMHO.

But the biggest problem is that egoboo does nothing even with unmodified Makefile.unix and egoboo.sh.

Thanks.

PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:50 am Post subject:

Argh, beat me again.
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Zefz · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:34 am Post subject:

Okay, do you get a log.txt output when you try to run Egoboo? It should appear in the same folder in which you are running Egoboo.

That one might spit out some useful information on the problem.
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linuxfan · Grub Bug Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 6

Yes, the log.txt has some info. This points out a second problem: packages should create files only in ~/.<packagename>/ as a general rule. Thus, when a linux user looks for this type a problem he should go to ~/.egoboo/log.txt and it should be immediately obvious. Minor, easily fixed problem. Just prepend ~/.egoboo/ to any file you look for or create.

Your script makes sure this files exists, but it needs also to be used. Wink

linuxfan · Grub Bug Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 6

And the log.txt points out that I obviously missed directing the setup.txt from /usr/share/games/egoboo according to Linux's FHS. It's still looking in /usr/share/egoboo.

I'll temporarily fix this end with an sed script, but would appreciate if you could change the Linux stuff to install to /usr/games and /usr/share/games/egoboo.

Yipee! Well... almost. I get 1) no cursor which makes selection near impossible, 2) no "normal" keyboard responses as a backup to 1). Essentially,
I get the first and second menu and <esc> won't exit to previous.

The following is a slightly improved /usr/games/egoboo bash script. You'll
notice that I changed the executable to egoboo-bin:
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#!/bin/sh

EBIN=/usr/games
ESHARE=/usr/share/games/egoboo

# exit on any error
set -e

if [ ! -d ~/.egoboo ]; then
mkdir ~/.egoboo
cp -auv $ESHARE/{setup.txt,controls.txt,players} ~/.egoboo
ln -sf $ESHARE/{basicdat,modules} ~/.egoboo
fi

cd ~/.egoboo

exec $EBIN/egoboo-bin "$@"
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Zefz · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:56 am Post subject:

So this one is not better?

linuxfan · Grub Bug Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 6

No. It still uses libexec, not /usr/games, and egoboo rather than egoboo-bin. Also, I dislike "assuming" that $PREFIX will be part of $SHARED. Lastly, if you add the extra conditionals, you may move the `cd ~/.egoboo` to just after the the first `if`. Then ~/.egoboo may be changed to ./ and simplifies any further changes.

It's all a moot point if all that I get is a black screen, which is currently the
case. Wink

Thanks.