[Slackbuilds-users] Pygame SlackBuild build error

[Klaatu]

On 01/10/2014 04:43 AM, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
> On Thu 09 Jan 2014 09:15:04 PM WIT, Bojan Popovic wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> It seems Pygame SlackBuild is broken. I tried contacting the
>> maintainer but the email bounced back.
> 
>> Anyways, it seems to be about missing legacy v4l headers from the newer
>> kernels. There is a patch in Arch Linux repo that seems to fix the
>> issue.
>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/pygame-v4l.patch?h=packages/python-pygame
> 
>> I'm using it for some time now and didn't notice any problems. Pygame
>> based games I tried seemed to work.
> 
> The warning i got is like this
> Hunting dependencies...
> SDL     : found 1.2.15
> FONT    : found
> IMAGE   : found
> MIXER   : found
> SMPEG   : found 0.4.5
> NUMERIC : not found
> 
> 
> Warning, some of the pygame dependencies were not found. Pygame can
> still
> compile and install, but games that depend on those missing dependencies
> will not run. Would you like to continue the configuration? [Y/n]:
> 
> but if i answered yes, then the build continue and it built
> is this the one you got?
> 
> 
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I'm using this build for all kinds of Pygame stuff, and it works fine.

I could be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that Numeric's functions
are being covered by numpy anyway, so the fact that it is not found
turns out to be negligible.
See first answer on:
http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/592272-numpy-_numpy-numeric

-- klaatu