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Article #5031Re: Building xboard 3.0 pl19/gnuchess 4.0 pl68 on SGI Indigo, 5.1.1.2
From: Tim Mann
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 20:29
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 20:29
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In article <CMDnK2.Guu@news.cis.umn.edu> donahue@s3 (Michael J. Donahue) writes:
>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?
>...
>But when I try to run xboard with gnuchess it crashes
>immediately and gives the message:
>
> xboard: Can't ioctl pseudo-tty: Invalid argument
>
Try the following patch. This will be in the next xboard patchlevel.
--Tim
*** ../xboard-3.0.9/xboard.c Thu Sep 9 18:24:25 1993
--- xboard.c Mon Mar 7 13:54:58 1994
***************
*** 3388,3395 ****
--- 3491,3500 ----
if (ioctl (to_prog[0], I_PUSH, "ptem") == -1 ||
ioctl (to_prog[0], I_PUSH, "ldterm") == -1 ||
ioctl (to_prog[0], I_PUSH, "ttcompat") == -1) {
+ #ifdef NOTDEF /* seems some systems don't have or need ptem and ttcompat */
DisplayFatalError("Can't ioctl pseudo-tty", errno);
ExitEvent(1);
+ #endif /*NOTDEF*/
}
#endif /*SVR4*/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,8e2fb6bf07aa08f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-03-09 12:29:38 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!att-in!fnnews.fnal.gov!overload.lbl.gov!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!ames!sgiblab!gatekeeper.us.oracle.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!src.dec.com!mann From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Re: Building xboard 3.0 pl19/gnuchess 4.0 pl68 on SGI Indigo, 5.1.1.2 Date: 9 Mar 1994 20:29:38 GMT Organization: DEC Systems Research Center Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2llbji$sot@src-news.pa.dec.com> References: <CMDnK2.Guu@news.cis.umn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cypress.pa.dec.com