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Subject: Re: Xboard Engines, Crafty and GNUChess

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:37:18 07/20/04

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On July 20, 2004 at 22:31:55, Eric Jensen wrote:

>I am having trouble compiling crafty 19.15 from the command line... running a G4
>powerbook w/ X11 now, and Xboard (thanks mostly to help i've recieved here), but
>every time i try to compile crafty for example "gcc .../crafty.c -o .../crafty"
>I get the error message that it cannot find file "stropts.h" Any suggestions?

On UNIX machines that are not defined as NEXT operating system, stropts.h gets
included.  Here is the description:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/stropts.h.html

>Also: with GNUChess 5.07, when i try to build the opening book w/ the
>book_1.01.pgn from the GNU website, it says that there are improper characters
>in the file stream.  I don't think that i've accidentally added anything to the
>pgn file in the way of text formatting... do I need to delete the header files
>from the games?? That seems highly unlikely since that would be an arduous task
>in a pgn database of 180,000+ games.

Sounds like a cr/lf translation problem to me.  Can you edit the file normally
with a text editor?



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