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In article <TROMEY.94Sep23100211@kant.klab.caltech.edu>, tromey@klab.caltech.edu (Tom Tromey) writes:
> Does this mean it is essentially another branch of gnuchess?

No. It's just really Makefile hacks to do things that gnuchess's Makefile
curiously omits to do (e.g. building the hashfile !). There were a some minor
source mods too:

Line 724 of dspcom.c changed to save those (usually unwanted) CL* files to
/tmp/CL* instead.

Line 1170 of dspcom.c had the XBOARD string commented out (strict ANSI C
gives a warning if you put a string after a #else or #endif).

Lines 1760, 1764, 1768, 1772 and 1776 of gnuan.c all had an extra ; following a
} when they shouldn't have, so the ; was removed.

doc/gnuchess.6 claims that "gnuchess -c 22" generates a 4MB hashfile, which is
wrong on most UNIX systems I suspect. It's actually "gnuchess -c 17" that does
this. "gnuchess -c 22" will fill your disk with a 128MB hashfile instead !

Finally, I have to question the logic of includiing the book file as the
gzip'ed file book/gnuchess.bk3.z (wrong extension, should be .gz) INSIDE a
gnuchess*.tar.gz file - this leads to inefficient compression.

On a different matter, why aren't the possible book moves listed by the new
"bk" command actually in sorted preference order ?

> Are there any plans to use configure for gnuchess, thus eliminating the
> need for at least the above version?

I would probably still hack the configure system because it never gets it
"right" :-)

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