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Michael J. Donahue (donahue@s3) wrote:
: Has anyone done a successful build of xboard 3.0 pl19 with gnuchess
: 4.0 pl68 using the IRIX Release 5.1.1.2 cc compiler?  After some
: hacking on the gnuchess makefile I got an apparently successful
: compile (plain gnuchess works O.K.), and I had no problem getting
: xboard to build, and it works fine in the -ncp (no chess program)
: mode.  But when I try to run xboard with gnuchess it crashes
: immediately and gives the message:

: 	xboard: Can't ioctl pseudo-tty: Invalid argument

: Any help greatly appreciated.

: Michael J. Donahue
: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
: University of Minnesota
: donahue@ima.umn.edu

I have installed gnuchesspl68 and xboard pl9 on an Indigo 2.  For
gnuchess, I used the option for IRIX in the makefile (the one with -cckr
and -DNOMACROS).  I also change the OPT= macro in the Makefile to use the
NON CLIENT version (important!).  During compilation, I had to change some
floating point constants in search.c (removing the "l" from behind them). 
Other than that, no changes were made and compilation was okay with a few
warning messages which I ignored.  Gnuchess/x/r ran fine. 

When compiling XBOARD all I needed to do was to add in the -DIRIX option 
as stated.  Xmkmf and make went fine.  

Before playing against gnuchess, I did a ln -s to gnuchessx and also 
copied the gnuchess.lang file to the xboard directory.  Running xboard 
with no options works fine and I've just finished a game against gnu.

What you need to do is to run xboard -debug whenever any problem arises.  
Perhaps the debug messages will give some clue to you,  If not you can 
post them here and Mann will probably be able to help you.

Kong Sian