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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Games grimoire guidelines
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:28:42 -0800

Quoting "Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>:
<snip>
> I'm also running into a path problem with vegastrike at the moment so
> I'd like (from all of you) your suggstions as well about that:
> it seems the --datadir= flag is broken in the vegastrike configure so when
> I install the vegastrike data in /usr/share/games/vegastrike as it is
> required by sourcemage standarts, then the game is unable to find the
> data when launched and therefore fails (note that it finds the data if
> I put them in /usr/share/vegastrike).
> Any clue on how to solve that?

There were a few other games that did that (I don't recall which ones), but
what
I did for the ones I fixed was modify either the Makefile or the source to use
the proper path.

> Also I was wondering why we don't use the /usr/share path for the games
> like for all the other programs instead of using /usr/share/games ?
> Why do games need a special path, why do they have a special status?

Probably to keep the games separate from "useful" programs? That's just the
way
it's always been, so we've kept with it, IIRC.

> Mathieu.

-sandalle

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