On 2017/04/24 15:39, Rafael Sadowski wrote: > On Mon Apr 24, 2017 at 12:37:08PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > > Rafael Sadowski <raf...@sizeofvoid.org> writes: > > > > > Hi ports@, > > > > > > please find below a simple patch to update xboard to the last stable > > > version. Regen and fix WANTLIB. Lightly tested on amd64. > > > > The current version comes with a bunch of preconfigured chess engines. > > By default one can start xboard and use gnuchess out of the box. It > > seems this is not the case with xboard-4.9.1, I get a weird error > > message at startup, and I haven't managed to start a new game yet. > > I don't think this is ready to go in. > > "xboard -fcp gnuchess" Works like a charm. I think you mean: > https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/FAQ.html#tag-C.22 > > It's not a weird error, it's a GNU feature: > https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/FAQ.html#tag-D.6
'By default, XBoard tries to use Fairy-Max by running the command "fairymax".' Since we don't have that in ports, it's not a very useful default..
