Findings on control scheme (modern/retro) configuration for Ports

Issues 2601 Jacaranda
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I was exploring the issue regarding some Ports are not using the control scheme (modern/retro) mapping. Upon initial investigation, it seems like some PortMaster applications ignores what is set on the SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG variable and would keep on using /usr/lib32/gamecontrollerdb.txt.

A quick fix I did that seemed to work was to add the following to the SETUP_SDL_ENVIRONMENT() function in script/var/func.sh script:

for LIB_D in lib lib32; do
	BASE="/usr/$LIB_D"
	[ -d "$BASE" ] || continue

	GCDB_LIB_PATH="$BASE/gamecontrollerdb.txt"

	rm -f "$GCDB_LIB_PATH"
	ln -s "$SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG_FILE" "$GCDB_LIB_PATH"
done

Added this after the line:

export SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG_FILE SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG

This linking implementation is inspired from script/mux/sdl_map.sh.

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