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Re: help a newbie setup gnu chess?

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From: Thomas Hayden
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:08
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Thanks man, that worked perfect! I was just configuring it wrong!


Simon Waters wrote:

> Thomas Hayden wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, I am new to linux (second day) and every time I follow the
>> instructions to setup gnu chess I get the same message:
>> 
>> 1. I type autoconf like the install tells me and I get this response:
>> 
>> [haydenth@haydenth chess-5.02]$ cd src
>> [haydenth@haydenth src]$ autoconf
>> configure.in:32: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
>> cross compiling
> 
> Okay - that warning is normal and nothing to worry about (Well
> I'm worrying about it for a future version, so you don't have
> to).
> 
>> And It doesn't let me do any of the following steps!
> 
> Next step is "./configure", what happens when you type this?
> 
> If it makes it easier you can catch the output in a file using
> the script command.
> 
> script mybuild.txt
> ./configure
> 
> Then a "ctrl-D" will stop logging output to file.
>  
>> help me please, i really want to play this!
> 
> Hey this stuff is now maintained on GNU Linux, so no worries,
> but we need to see the errors.
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From: Thomas Hayden <haydenth@msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: help a newbie setup gnu chess?
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:08:55 -0500
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