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Article #5380Re: The old xboard/gnuchess prob....
From: Tim Mann
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1993 20:59
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1993 20:59
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> Whenever i execute xboard i get the message `first chess program (gnuchessx) > exited unespectedly`. Since i don t want to bother you with silly questions > i read the faq and used the `-debug` flag. Now it says `no langfile` as > mentioned in the faq. So now i know that i didn t compile gnuchess correctly, > but what the hack did i do wrong? This message means that the file gnuchess.lang was not found in the directory where gnuchess was looking for it. > The only thing i did was that i wrote my > local bin and lib directories in the Makefile (so that was /home/.../mini/bin > and /home/.../mini/lib). So gnuchess.lang must be present in /home/.../mini/lib. > Another problem was that `make install` (the 3rd step in the > installation-guide) > didn`t work. > `fatal error: don`t know how to make target `install`` > Where do i have to type `make install`? src? bin? lib? "make install" is the step that (among other things) puts gnuchess.lang into the lib directory. So this is the cause of the first problem. You type "make install" in the same place you typed "make" to build gnuchess---in the gnuchess4.0p62/src directory. There is definitely an entry for "install" in the Makefile there as it's distributed. "make install" builds gnuchess's book as well as installing things in the right directories, so you definitely need to do it. --Tim
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,43a8ce5d6798d125 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-10-30 18:14:03 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!src.dec.com!mann From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Re: The old xboard/gnuchess prob.... Date: 30 Oct 1993 20:59:04 GMT Organization: DEC Systems Research Center Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2aukio$9ov@src-news.pa.dec.com> References: <2as1t3$dgr@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: cypress.pa.dec.com