Recommend `sudo ldconfig` (Fix #616) & revert arch-dependent changes that didn't fix the issue anyway.

.gitignore

@@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ linux-minetest-kit.zip
 /docker/libraries-devuan-chimaera/install-minetest-build-deps.sh
 /debug.txt
 linux-minetest-kit/
+/projects-local/*
+!/projects-local/copy_projects_to_here.txt

projects-local/copy_projects_to_here.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+This folder exists so you can copy `code-workspace` files from projects
+to here then modify them to suit your needs. Files other than this text
+file will be ignored by git to prevent git pull issues, so backup any
+`code-workspace` files or other files you add to this folder.
+
+Edit `code-workspace` files to include your relative path to minetest,
+but you must leave the path to `run-any` intact unless you change it to
+an absolute path which is required to put your `run-any`
+`code-workspace` file somewhere else (This subfolder is here so relative
+paths in the included code-workspaces for run-any will work when copied
+here)
+
+The purpose is:
+- You can click on paths in your IDE to jump to the Lua code.
+  - outputinspector unmangles errors if installed as described in readme.md.
+- For details and troubleshooting, see "run-any" in readme.md:
+  <https://github.com/Poikilos/EnlivenMinetest#run-any>

readme.md

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The official game server (world) is called **center** (or "Center of
 the Sun"). The address and port for that and other worlds are listed at
 [minetest.io](https://minetest.io).
 
-To better understand what the issue board covers, see
+To better understand what the **Issues** section covers, see
 [Project Status](#project-status) below.
 
 For notes on current development discussions, see the
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ universal to gaming and intuitively expected (such as is clear from
 vision biology in the case of tone mapping).
 * See also overrides/worlds/CenterOfTheSun/world.conf
 
+The EnlivenMinetest repo has tools for:
+- building ENLIVEN game for Minetest
+  - ENLIVEN is designed to be built from other sources instead of being monolithic.
+  - It needs to be reworked as of August 2023; only bucket_game build works currently.
+  - The copy in "releases" only works in versions close to 0.4.13.
+- building Minetest
+- installing Minetest (some features may be superceded by
+  <https://github.com/Hierosoft/hierosoft>, which is pre-alpha as of Aug 2023)
+- Some specific tools are listed in the [Scripts](#scripts) section below.
+
 **Q**: "Why not make it compatible with versions from the .net site to get [feature x]?"
 
 **A**: The Minetest 5 (.net site) core devs have decided to reduce
@@ -206,26 +216,50 @@ Disable or remove these Bucket_Game mods/features potentially (not matching them
 * https://github.com/Poikilos/EnlivenMinetest/issues/594
 
 
-## Building Minetest
+## Scripts
+### Building Minetest
 This project is mostly for building ENLIVEN, but there are some scripts
 here to help build the engine as well: See [doc/building-minetest.md](doc/building-minetest.md).
 
+### run-any
+`run-any` is a shim to run binaries (instead of compile) in VSCode. The
+purpose is:
+- You can click on errors in the VSCode shell to navigate to the line(s) of
+  Lua involved in a crash.
+- If you clone/extract
+  [outputinspector](https://github.com/Poikilos/outputinspector)
+  to the same parent folder as EnlivenMinetest, `run-any` will use it to
+  convert paths in Lua tracebacks to clickable paths. For example:
+  - `...../games/ENLIVEN/mods/coderfood/unified_foods/hunger.lua:342: in function ...`
+    - becomes:
+      `/home/user/minetest/games/ENLIVEN/mods/coderfood/unified_foods/hunger.lua:342: in function ...`
+      (If paths including working directory are set correctly such as in
+      `code-workspace` if using VSCode)
+  - See also "tests" directory in
+    [outputinspector](https://github.com/Poikilos/outputinspector)
+- If you have a missing library error in Linux when running using VSCode
+  (even when `run-any` works outside of VSCode), try `sudo ld-config` & see:
+  - [projects-local/copy_projects_to_here.txt](projects-local/copy_projects_to_here.txt)
+  - <https://github.com/Poikilos/EnlivenMinetest/issues/616>
+- A future version of `run-any` may require outputinspector such as if the main
+  function is moved to a submodule there.
+
 
 ## Configuration Files
 (configuring the build of ELIVEN [the mod set only, not binaries])
 You can place zero or more of the following variables in
-$HOME/.config/EnlivenMinetest/scripting.rc:
-```
+`$HOME/.config/EnlivenMinetest/scripting.rc`:
+```bash
 CUSTOM_SCRIPTS_PATH
 MT_POST_INSTALL_SCRIPT_2  # relative to CUSTOM_SCRIPTS_PATH
 REPO_PATH  # Set this if your copy of the repo is not ~/git/EnlivenMinetest
 ENABLE_CLIENT  # =true if you want install-mts.sh to install the client.
 ```
 - If ~/minetest/bin/minetest is present, that has the same effect as
-  `ENABLE_CLIENT=true`.
+  `ENABLE_CLIENT=true`
 
 You can place a script called mts.sh in your home (or
-CUSTOM_SCRIPTS_PATH) directory to run it after install (you can put
+`CUSTOM_SCRIPTS_PATH`) directory to run it after install (you can put
 archive-minetestserver-debug.sh there too to run first). A suggested use
 is to put a line in mts.sh that starts the server, so that the server
 starts after the installation or upgrade is complete.
@@ -337,6 +371,7 @@ README.txt in Minetest's doc folder which is provided in releases.
   application), ENLIVEN subgame (including optional child-friendly
   changes for schools), other files, and licenses of added files.
 
+
 ## Development
 For future plans and how you can contribute or build the game (Lua) or package (Lua+engine+conf) see [doc/development.md](doc/development.md) and [issues](https://github.com/Poikilos/EnlivenMinetest/issues).
 
@@ -387,9 +422,6 @@ On 1/22/22 3:21 AM, Robert Kiraly wrote:
 
 `<Poikilos>` Ok can do.
 
-
-
-
 Issues where discussion was requested by RJK:
 - #500
 

utilities/run-any

@@ -118,7 +118,12 @@ def show_and_return(cmd, enable_collect=False, cwd=None, shell=False):
         else:
             if cmd.startswith(bin_rel):
                 cmd = "./" + cmd[len(bin_rel):]
-    pre_bin = "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64 " # doesn't fix #616
+    # pre_bin = "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64 " # doesn't fix #616
+    # Somehow #616 gone, even shell, force_shell, force_env False & no pre_bin
+    #   Maybe restart computer or run `sudo ldconfig` but I did neither
+    #   (unless installing a package triggered it--I installed lsb before the
+    #   problem went away I think).
+    pre_bin = ""
     force_shell = False
     # ^ Either True/False succeeds in bash, either way LD_LIBRARY_PATH
     #   fails in vscode:
@@ -129,7 +134,7 @@ def show_and_return(cmd, enable_collect=False, cwd=None, shell=False):
         #   even if run-any is run from bash prompt manually)
         if platform.system() == "Linux":
             if isinstance(cmd, list):
-                pre_bin = "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; " # doesn't fix #616
+                # pre_bin = "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; " # doesn't fix #616
                 # ^ adding "export " causes bad identifier error later in command
                 cmd = ["bash", "-c", "cd '" + cwd + "'; " + pre_bin + shlex.join(cmd)]
             else:
@@ -170,7 +175,8 @@ def show_and_return(cmd, enable_collect=False, cwd=None, shell=False):
     # ^ known good path in working bash that can run run-any
     # os.environ['PATH'] = good_path  # still doesn't fix issue #616
     this_env = os.environ.copy()
-    if platform.system() == "Linux":
+    force_env = False
+    if force_env and platform.system() == "Linux":
         # For diagnosing issue #616
         LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/usr/lib64"
         if "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" not in this_env: