Re: gnuchess/Linux woes

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From: Henny Wilbrink
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 20:46

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peterc@a2 (Peter Chang) writes:

>In article <1994Sep10.131209.19641@midway.uchicago.edu>, ace3@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Tony Acero) writes:
>>The last several versions (at least since pl69) of gnuchess have
>>exhibited the following behavior under Linux:
>>
>>	1.  Running under xboard -- "Program gnuchess exited
>>unexpectedly". (When debugging is enabled the following message is also
>>displayed.)
>>
>>	2.  Running gnuchess interactively -- "Received unknown signal"
>>and gnuchess dies (apparently a kernel message).
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Tony Acero
>>-- 

>Tony,

>I can't help. But I also have similarly troubles with gnuchess with
>or without xboard.

>I did mess around with the source (mainly header files to reduce size
>of tables) to stop it thrashing my disk (due to swapping).

>Anyway, I get the errors around the middlegame to endgame stage whether
>I'm winning or losing. Even if I save the position and restart xboard,
>it will spit out "Program gnuchess exited unexpectedly".

>Also, rather annoyingly, it doesn't recognise that it has lost
>when mated.

>Peter Chang - peterc@v2.ph.man.ac.uk

Try to compile gnuchess without the  -DAGING and -DKILLT defines in
the definition of OPT in src/Makefile. This worked for me. I never
bothered to find out which one of these two defines was causing the
trouble.

Henny Wilbrink
wsdwhw@.win.tue.nl

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From: wsdwhw@wsdw05.win.tue.nl (Henny Wilbrink)
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Subject: Re: gnuchess/Linux woes
Date: 12 Sep 1994 22:46:13 +0200
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