A plea to devs to fix the Linux 3.06 patch

[thejeff]

Working fine on debian unstable here.

I'm not sure why. I don't have glibc_2.4, so I didn't expect it to work.

I wonder if there's some more subtle dependency going on.

[Gandalf Parker]

I think debian moved it up to unstable. But thats still not what most linux servers on the net will be using. Home users, sure, might decide to use the unstable or even the test versions. So its still likely to be a problem for anyone running a public server, or loading dominions to their shell account on one.

[thejeff]

Nope, I still have /lib/libc-2.3.6.so

I'd checked it from work, when I first heard about the problem. I only installed the patch so I could be another data point. I was completely surprised when it worked.

There's something else going on.

[Gandalf Parker]

LINUX TECHNICAL CRAP: stop reading here if you dont want a headache

try typing...
dom3 -Tv
and then try typing
/usr/local/games/dominions3/dom3_x86 -Tv
(or whatever the appropriate version is for you). See if they agree on the version number. You might have a link to an older version.

You might walk thru the links. That messed me up in the past and took awhile for me to figure out. Such as, on MY machine, there is a softlink on the $PATH
/usr/local/bin/dom3
and if I go to that directory and do an "ls -l dom3" thenI see
lrwxrwxrwx dom3 -> /usr/local/games/dominions3/dom3
and doing a "ls -l dom3" of /usr/local/games/dominions3/dom3 shows me that its a softlink to dom3_x86.

But on one patch, I found that the first link was hard instead of soft. It showed /usr/local/bin/dom3 as a file with a size. That meant that my upgrade to /usr/local/games/dominions3 was ok for all of the files except the executional one.

Gandalf Parker

[thejeff]

Ok, here you go:

dom3 -Tv
Dominions 3, version 3.06 (Jan 28 2007 15:13:01)'

/usr/local/games/dominions3/dom3_x86 -Tv
Dominions 3, version 3.06 (Jan 28 2007 15:13:01)

which dom3
/usr/local/bin/dom3

ls -l /usr/local/bin/dom3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 32 Oct 4 17:52 /usr/local/bin/dom3 -> /usr/local/games/dominions3/dom3*

ls -l /usr/local/games/dominions3/dom3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root thejeff 8 Oct 4 17:52 /usr/local/games/dominions3/dom3 -> dom3_x86*

And for which library it's actually using:
ldd `which dom3` | grep libc
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7c82000)

ls -l /lib/tls/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 5 05:51 /lib/tls/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.6.so

I can't think of anything else to check. Everything indicates I'm running 3.06 using libc-2.3.6.
I don't know why it's working.

[Gandalf Parker]

OK I retreat on this one.
I went to the shrapnelgames download page and grabbed 3.06 again. Now when I install it the results are fine.

[llamabeast]

Maybe they fixed the problem and didn't mention it?