how do we go about getting Eternal Lands into gentoo

[Radu]

The client is not released as GPL for the simple reason that by doing so we can't offer closed source licenses to people who might want to buy our technology. We'd have to ask for the permission of everyone that contributed with code to the engine, and this would make things much harder for us.
We also had to include a clause in the license that you can't modify the client without our permission in order to prevent people from releasing various 'enhanced' versions facilitating macroing, and other forms of cheating. They'll do it anyway, but at least we'll be able to take legal action against them if they do so.

[Daemonax]

If this game goes comercial would it just be a budget game?

It looks good, but not compared to a comercial rpg.

I guess you couldn't sell it to another company, but you could sell it yourself, there's no rule against selling open source software aslong as you also offer it for free, and alot of linux users are more than happy to pay for any game that runs on our favourite OS even if it is available for free

[Radu]

Of course we can't directly compete with big gaming companies, since they have far more resources than we do. However, this is not a good reason to further limit our options.
As the client engine matures, I/we might want to do a single player game, which might or might not be OSS. So this current license is the best trade off between giving us more freedom, and also having an OSS software, so the community can benefit from it.

[Daemonax]

Mmmm well guess you guys would know alot more about the licence's than I would...... It still looks better than the majority of free games, so prehaps as it matures it'll come to look quite pretty, that's one thing I love about open source and gnu/linux apps in general, being able to watch them mature.

[Radu]

Thanks.
Eternal Lands has a higher quality than the average OSS games because:
1. We have a good artist (which is one of the most important thing when you make a game, OSS or not).
2. We worked a LOT at this game. In October it's the 2nd year aniversary (2 years of working at it).
We also have a relatively small team (3 programmers, 1 artist, 1 world builder+ a few helpers) which is good because it avoids long talks, fights, etc.

[Daemonax]

So has this game been added to the portage tree yet? I would like to try it out.... Also gotta try out adonthell.

Mmm wish that I had the old school RPG battletech for linux.... Mmmmm amiga mmmmm.

[Bjorn]

We'll tell you when the ebuilds go into bugs.gentoo.org, so you can put it in your $PORTDIR_OVERLAY There's a new release just around the corner (perhaps already today) and that should be handled first.

[Bjorn]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49891

[Cicero]

[neuron]

anyone got a review of this? /me 's a bit lazy

[Cicero]

I updated the ebuild:

- No longer uses CVS to get the source (I made source tarballs)

- Compiles in the path of the data files

- Version bumped to 0.9.9


Please test the new ebuild. I'd really like this to make it into portage.

[Ohmu]

Three bugs I noticed:
- The ebuild is in windows format (\r\n) so portage gives some errors
- The el.ini is empty (had to go to cvs and copy the ini there)
- To run the game you need to be in data dir (/usr/share/games/eternal-lands/) so there could be a little bash script for it to cd there and exec the bin then

[Cicero]

fixed
fixed
fixed, but you need to re-download the source tarball as well as the new ebuild

[Gornauth]

Hi,

I'm new to Gentoo and was wondering how i would go about installing this piece of software?

It looks absolutly great, but i haven't got the faintest idea of how to install it.

I got the attachtment of bugs.gentoo.org, but what should i do with it?

[Ohmu]

I did it like (as root):

[Gornauth]

Thanks, worked like a charm

[charlieg]

[nightmarez]

Hi

After building the ebuild i get this error when i try to emerge eternal-lands:

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume_or_Rethrow@GCC_3.3'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [el.x86.linux.bin] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/eternal-lands-0.9.9/work/elc'
make: *** [release] Error 2

!!! ERROR: games-rpg/eternal-lands-0.9.9 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 40, Exitcode 2
!!! make failed!

sys-devel/gcc :
Latest version installed: 3.3.3-r3

greets nightmarez aka lethe

[Cicero]

It might be a gcc problem, latest stable is 3.3.3-r6

[hardkaare]

So its goint to bee added to portage?

[drakos7]

So is the sit-click auto click patch included in this?

editI talked with Cicero, No it is not included. Now I have to figure out how to modify an ebuild.

[Cicero]

Um, no. No unofficial patches.

[drakos7]

Using the info at this thread I managed to get the patch in.
1 Download patch from the eternal lands thread and modify if as per the thread.
2 Modify this code to satisfy your PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Cicero]

This is not something that should be in the ebuild. Patching source in an ebuild should be for fixing bugs, or compatability with Gentoo, not "enhancing" a game.

[supertechmyers]

I agree