No idea where play(1) is/was.
Old prog now gone? Missing dep?
I guess removing "z" from WANTLIB is ok
if port-lib-depends-check says so.
Stu
Use aucat(1) to play sounds.
Remove extra "z" from WANTLIB.
diff -Nurp /usr/ports/games/xboard/Makefile ./Makefile
--- /usr/ports/games/xboard/Makefile Fri Nov 8 21:50:35 2024
+++ ./Makefile Fri Aug 28 08:47:58 2026
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ COMMENT= X11 frontend for GNU Chess and the Internet C
DISTNAME= xboard-4.9.1
CATEGORIES= games x11
SITES= ${SITE_GNU:=xboard/}
-REVISION= 7
+REVISION= 8
HOMEPAGE= https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ WANTLIB = X11 Xcomposite Xcursor Xdamage Xext Xfixes
WANTLIB += Xrender atk-1.0 c cairo fontconfig freetype gdk-x11-2.0
WANTLIB += gdk_pixbuf-2.0 gio-2.0 glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gobject-2.0
WANTLIB += gtk-x11-2.0 harfbuzz iconv intl m pango-1.0 pangocairo-1.0
-WANTLIB += pangoft2-1.0 pthread rsvg-2 z
+WANTLIB += pangoft2-1.0 pthread rsvg-2
BUILD_DEPENDS= devel/xdg-utils
diff -Nurp /usr/ports/games/xboard/patches/patch-xboard_conf
./patches/patch-xboard_conf
--- /usr/ports/games/xboard/patches/patch-xboard_conf Fri Mar 11 14:05:16 2022
+++ ./patches/patch-xboard_conf Fri Aug 28 08:41:58 2026
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
---- xboard.conf.orig Wed Oct 22 17:37:26 2014
-+++ xboard.conf Mon Nov 10 09:33:04 2014
+Index: xboard.conf
+--- xboard.conf.orig
++++ xboard.conf
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
-pieceMenu false
-showTargetSquares true
-seekGraph true
--soundProgram "aplay -q"
-+-soundProgram "play -q"
++-soundProgram "aucat -i"
-soundDirectory "~~/sounds"
-soundTell phone.wav
-soundChallenge gong.wav
