Re: GNU/Chess 5.03 Released

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From: Simon Waters
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:46

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Lukas Geyer wrote:
> 
> > > checking for inttypes.h... no
> > > checking for stdint.h... no
> >
> > The great thing about standards is they keep changing.
> 
> Well, C99 has been around for some time, unfortunately implementations
> still are lacking behind.

> Well, we could try to solve this with autoconf magic. However, I do
> not like a solution with special windows sources which use C++ and
> some windows-specific headers. (This is fine to be distributed by Dan
> but the mainstream gnuchess should remain portable C, I think.)
> Unfortunately I am not able to test with Cygwin due to a local lack of
> MS software, but someone should maybe test with Cygwin before
> releases.

I have installed cygwin. Reproduced this.

Guido has written some Macros to find inttypes or mock it up if
missing (Much as I described in the workaround) on sourceforge.

So I'll try these when I get a moment.

> P.S.: There was another report on problems with the Cygwin readline
> DLL, can someone confirm that?

I deliberately installed readline on the small Windows partition
I have lurking, and it was spotted on configure, although I
didn't specifically try using the functionality, I didn't see
any problems.

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From: Simon Waters <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: GNU/Chess 5.03 Released
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