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>In article <znanie.805444068@shell1.best.com>, znanie@best.com (Znanie Book Store) writes:
>>The xboard program produces a Segmentation Fault message when run.
>>
>>I have downloaded slackware's gnuchess and xboard program and then
>>downloaded and compiled xboard from the gnu archive.  Works just
>>the same.

I was having similar problems a month or two ago and it was
suggested that I upgrade to the gnuchess 4.0 patch level 74
(which was the latest at that time).  Indeed, this immediately
fixed most of my problems with xboard (from the slackware dist.).
Some further problems were corrected by executing 
`make gnuchess.data' prior to `make install'.  This generates
the opening book, and for some reason was not included in
the toplevel make or explicitly referred to in the installation
documentation.  It turns out that in addition to providing an opening 
book, this inclusion had the further effect of fixing an error 
that I was experiencing when switching to play by two machines via `
edit game' in the middle of a game.  Without the gnuchess.data file, 
this operation would often cause xboard/gnuchessx to crash with a
"First chess program exited unexpectedly" message.  As it is,
the program still reports this error on occasion (though more
rarely), but the msg. is no loger accompanied by a crash.

- Josh
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