Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 16:01:54 03/08/00
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On March 08, 2000 at 18:27:07, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On March 08, 2000 at 18:14:18, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>On March 08, 2000 at 14:57:19, Sven Reichard wrote:
>>
>>>Recently I tried to install KnightCap and ran into some problems. Has anybody
>>>faced and solved them before?
>>>OS: RH Linux 6.2
>>>Compiler: gcc 2.8
>>>Program: KnightCap 3.6
>>>
>>>1) The help command crashes the program. I tried to look at the sources, but
>>>couldn't find a reason.
>>>2) The program doesn't find the file coeffs.dat. This is not a problem until you
>>>let it run under xboard (e.g., to compare it with crafty). Then, the error
>>>message causes xboard to abort the match. Is there a way to generate this file
>>>from the .h-files? None of the included utilities would do.
>>>
>>>Thanks, Sven.
>>
>> I also faced problem 2) when I tried KnightCap on Sparc/Solaris. As I did not
>>find any solution, I deleted the whole thing.
>
>Why not modify the source.
Because some of us do not have the required skills to succesfully modify source
code. While I think I can solve those problems if I really want to, I have no
patience (or energy) for that.
In this particular case, it is not a misplaced file which is not found, but
rather a non-existent file (which is obviously not found).
José.
>I made something like that for Crafty (which is now
>in the core) where you get an environmental variable for the location of things.
>For example:
>/* Collect environmental variables */
>char *directory_spec = getenv("CRAFTY_BOOK_PATH");
>if (directory_spec)
> strncpy(book_path, directory_spec, sizeof book_path);
>directory_spec = getenv("CRAFTY_LOG_PATH");
>if (directory_spec)
> strncpy(log_path, directory_spec, sizeof log_path);
>directory_spec = getenv("CRAFTY_TB_PATH");
>if (directory_spec)
> strncpy(tb_path, directory_spec, sizeof tb_path);
>directory_spec = getenv("CRAFTY_RC_PATH");
>if (directory_spec)
> strncpy(rc_path, directory_spec, sizeof rc_path);
>
>As you can see, it is absurdly easy. Suggestion:
>Make sure that all the strings you use are size:
>char foo[FILENAME_MAX]; /* FILENAME_MAX is defined in stdio.h */
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