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Tim,

    Thanks, that was acutally very helpful. The binary name is "gnuchess",
right? Well, I'm going to try to hook it up to the Xboard once I get home. Any
tips on compiling freeciv? =)

Best regards,

    Sky Lemon

Tim Mann wrote:

> Actually, it looks like you did compile GNU Chess.
>
> In article <39C3BC4F.78338EE7@ne.mediaone.net>,
> Sky Lemon  <skylemon@ne.mediaone.net> wrote:
> >Unfortunately I can not compile gnu's chess program. I am running
> >Solaris 8 on an Ultra 10. I am using gmake to compile. Here are the
> >errors I receive:
> >
> >After running `gmake`:
> >
> >book.c: In function 'bookmove':
> >book.c:191: warning: passing arg 4 of 'qsort' from incompatible pointer
> >type
> >
>
> This is only a warning, not a fatal error.  If this is the only message
> you got, then nothing is wrong.
>
> >And when I run 'gmake install'
> >
> >cp k2.exe /winprg/winboard
> >cp: cannot access k2.exe
> >game: *** [install] Error 2
> >
> >    There is no k2.exe in my chess/src directory. I did su to root when
> >running 'gmake install'. I don't understand why it would want to copy a
> >'k2.exe' to /winprg/winboard. I'm running Solaris 8 now Windows. Any
> >help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> This is an error in the Makefile.  "k2" is a former name for what is now
> GNU Chess 5.0, and of course .exe is a Windows suffix, not a Unix suffix.
> You successfully compiled gnuchess, and it should be sitting in the
> source directory.  You can run it from where it is, or "install" it by
> hand by copying it to whatever directory you want to put it in.
> The fact that "make install" doesn't work shouldn't get in your way.
>
> You may also need to build the book.  I don't recall offhand how to do that.
> You should be able to find out by reading the README file.
>
>         --Tim
>
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> Tim Mann  tim.mann@compaq.com  http://www.tim-mann.org
> Compaq Computer Corporation, Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA