On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:26:21PM +0200, Jordà Polo wrote: > I can't reproduce the problem (no kFreeBSD box around yet), but it is > failing at PHYSFS_init(), which looking at libphysfs's code, does some > really weird stuff trying to guess the base directory. But other than > that, there is nothing special about that function: it is either called > with argv[0] or NULL as the only parameter. Other libphysfs-based games > such as Warzone2100 call it exactly like Neverball does. Do you have > similar problems with Warzone2100? > > A few days ago I committed a patch to the pkg-games SVN repository > (already applied upstream) that might also be helpful to find out where > exactly in the initialization it is failing.
The patch has been removed since there is now a new upstream release. > (This seems to be related to #544835, so fixing this bug will probably > help to fix the FTBFS problems, which seem a bit random at the moment. > Neverball 1.5.2 has only been succesfully (auto) built on armel, i386, > ia64, and mips, yet it builds just fine on my amd64 and powerpc > cowbuilders.) Hmm, not so sure about it anymore, it may be failing for different reasons. Some of the "weird stuff" that physfs does to guess the base directory includes checking /proc/self/exe (not available on BSD) or PATH (see platform/unix.c). Jānis Rūcis (parasti), Neverball developer, told me at on IRC: «running a small test program on a kFreeBSD live CD gives "no such file or directory" as the error when physfs init fails (i.e., running from PATH not with relative/absolute name); readlink /proc/self/exe prints out "unknown"» I'm still not able to reproduce it, but wanted to keep you updated. The new release will probably provide a few more pointers to help diagnose the problem, but it would be interesting to know if other libphysfs games such as warzone2100 (or pingus, netpanzer, lincity-ng, etc.) work fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
