Re: linux-rl-sdl20 port and distfile fetching

Hello!

On 31.12.2024 01:19, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> I am hopeful at migrating some of the 32-bit Linux games I maintain to rl9 to take advantage of security and bug fixes.  As they require SDL 1.2, they could possibly run with the sdl12-compat library.  I have not tested this as of yet.  In fact, I have not tested the port other than building, but I am sure it works.  :D  I do not want to continue down this path if it is totally wrong.
> 
> However, I did create a port for linux-rl9-sdl20, which would be needed first.  This required changes to Uses/linux.mk due to how packages are stored on the Rocky Linux site.  The filename starts with "SDL2-2.26.0"
> while the directory it inhabits uses a lowercase "s".  The patch worked for me under poudriere to fetch the base rl9 files and the new port by always making the subdirectory lowercase.
> 
> Both patches are here:  https://people.freebsd.org/~scf/linux-rl9/
> 

SDL and company work in progress here :)
Will be landed soon in preparation of switch default to rl9 instead of c7


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