FreeBSD Port: games/frozenbubble

[Christian Laursen]

Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.com> writes:

> I've just tried to compile the frozenbubble game, and it installs
> fine, but refuses to run, giving this error:
>
> [SDL Init] Bad system call
>
> Not sure what the problem is, I have 3d support enabled, tried it on
> two different systems, same error on both. Using FreeBSD 6.3-PRE /
> PC-BSD 1.4.x
>
> Any ideas? Something broken with the SDL lib? FB uses SDL-perl, which
> also could be causing the problem.

In my experience SDL-perl only works when perl is built with
WITH_THREADS=yes.

When you rebuild your perl with threads you also need to rebuild a
number of the ports that depend on perl.

-- 
Christian Laursen