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stepmania does not work

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Message #16 received at 34854-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: 34854-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: stepmania does not work
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:16:33 +0100

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
>> "GtkModule.so" should be located in the same directory as the executable
>> "stepmania". This is the case in our package: both are located in
>> "…stepmania-5.1.0-b2/share/stepmania/".
>>
>> However, our package definition also creates a symlink to the
>> "stepmania" executable in the "bin/" directory. Since the symlink is
>> launched, and not the executable, the working directory seems to be off.
>>
>> As another data point, the one place in the code base that actually
>> makes use of "GtkModule.so" is "LoadingWindow/LoadingWindow_Gtk.cpp"
>> file:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> std::string LoadingWindow_Gtk::Init()
>> {
>> 	ASSERT( Handle == nullptr );
>>
>> 	Handle = dlopen( (RageFileManagerUtil::sDirOfExecutable + "/" + "GtkModule.so").c_str(), RTLD_NOW );
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> I'm not sure about how to proceed from there. Maybe use `wrap-program'
>> around the "stepmania" symlink. If so, what to wrap? Another option is
>> to patch the "LoadingWindow_Gtk.cpp" file like:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> Handle = dlopen( (RageFileManagerUtil::sDirOfExecutable + "/" + "../share/stepmania/GtkModule.so").c_str(), RTLD_NOW );
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> I'd favor the second option, but I cannot test the results since
>> I cannot reproduce the problem.
>
> I implemented something similar in commit
> 45aba232abe50b6642abfaa06030985c7febbe07.
>
> There still are problems, though.  The program expects a directory
> “Songs” to exist in the current working directory.  It then fails with
> this error:
>
>     Error: No NoteSkins found
>
> This seems to work fine only when when “stepmania” is executed from
> within the “share/stepmania” directory.  I suspect that this is the same
> kind of problem.

This is now fixed with commit 4774677228.

-- 
Ricardo

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