Re: [Bug-XBoard] xboard: Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx on localhost: gnuchessx: No such file or directory

[Tim Mann]

You would probably be better off using GNU Chess 5, not GNU Chess 4,
but if you want to use GNU Chess 4, I think the langfile error is
covered in the FAQ too.  See question [C.19], second paragraph.

By the way, I am puzzled why you are compiling xboard 4.2.7 and GNU
Chess from source for Linux.  Most Linux distributions include these
programs in packages.

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:20:10 +0530, Ketan Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
>   Thanks for the info ..
>   I have tried to install gnuchess-4.0.pl80
>   so i was facing one issue  attached file which describes the cmds and its
> output (log.txt)
> 
> ===============================================
> dspcomN.o(.text+0x17e5): In function `ElapsedTime':
> : undefined reference to `errno'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [gnuchess] Error 1
>  ===============================================
> 
> 
>   so to avoid above problem i  have modfied gnuan.c and dspcom.c as errno
> are used in fprintf only ..
> 
> ==org code ==
>    fprintf (stderr,    "You probably have a non-ANSI <ioctl.h>; see README.
> %d %d %x\n",  i, errno, FIONREAD);
> == modfied code
>    fprintf (stderr,    "You probably have a non-ANSI <ioctl.h>; see README.
> %d %x\n",  i,  FIONREAD);
> 
>  and recompiled every c file and put gnuchess in my PATH variable
>  My PATH variable has :
>  $HOME/chess/gnuchess-4.0.pl80/src:$HOME/chess/gnuchess-4.0.pl80/misc
> 
>   Now whne i am doing xboard facing following issue ..
> xboard: Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx on localhost: NO
> LANGFILE (file gnuchess.lang not found)
> 
> i have seen gnuchess.lang  is present at $HOME/chess/gnuchess-4.0.pl80/misc
> still i am facing above issue .. please can you help on the same ?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks !!
> 
> 
> Regards
> Ketan
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Tim Mann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > See http://tim-mann.org/xboard/FAQ.html#[C.22] in the FAQ.
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:06:30 +0530, Ketan Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > >   I have donwloaded the xboard4.2.7 from
> > > ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/xboar-4.2.7.tar.gz
> > >   And i have run  the  folliwing cmd on linux  terminal but i  am not
> > able
> > > to run the xboard geting the error .
> > >
> > >
> > > xboard: Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx on localhost:
> > > gnuchessx: No such file or directory
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  Please can anyboy help on this ???
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  Attaching below with cmd and its output from linux Termina ...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 1) #uname -a
> > >    Linux bdbtplindt0667 2.6.9-67.0.4.EL #1 Fri Jan 18 04:50:00 EST 2008
> > i686
> > > i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > ==========================================================================================
> > > 2) #./configure
> > > checking for gcc... gcc
> > > checking for C compiler default output... a.out
> > > checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> > > checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> > > checking for suffix of executables...
> > > checking for suffix of object files... o
> > > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> > > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> > > checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> > > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> > > checking for library containing strerror... none required
> > > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> > > checking for lex... lex
> > > checking for flex... (cached) lex
> > > checking for yywrap in -lfl... yes
> > > checking lex output file root... lex.yy
> > > checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
> > > checking for remsh... no
> > > checking for rsh... rsh
> > > checking for nroff... nroff -man
> > > checking for awk... /usr/bin/awk
> > > checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> > > checking for egrep... grep -E
> > > checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> > > checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
> > > checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
> > > checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
> > > checking for library containing opendir... none required
> > > checking return type of signal handlers... void
> > > checking for sys/types.h... yes
> > > checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> > > checking for stdlib.h... yes
> > > checking for string.h... yes
> > > checking for memory.h... yes
> > > checking for strings.h... yes
> > > checking for inttypes.h... yes
> > > checking for stdint.h... yes
> > > checking for unistd.h... yes
> > > checking stropts.h usability... yes
> > > checking stropts.h presence... yes
> > > checking for stropts.h... yes
> > > checking sys/time.h usability... yes
> > > checking sys/time.h presence... yes
> > > checking for sys/time.h... yes
> > > checking for string.h... (cached) yes
> > > checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> > > checking sys/systeminfo.h usability... no
> > > checking sys/systeminfo.h presence... no
> > > checking for sys/systeminfo.h... no
> > > checking fcntl.h usability... yes
> > > checking fcntl.h presence... yes
> > > checking for fcntl.h... yes
> > > checking sys/socket.h usability... yes
> > > checking sys/socket.h presence... yes
> > > checking for sys/socket.h... yes
> > > checking stddef.h usability... yes
> > > checking stddef.h presence... yes
> > > checking for stddef.h... yes
> > > checking for _getpty... no
> > > checking for grantpt... yes
> > > checking for setitimer... yes
> > > checking for usleep... yes
> > > checking for gettimeofday... yes
> > > checking for random... yes
> > > checking for gethostname... yes
> > > checking for setlocale... yes
> > > checking for getpseudotty in -lseq... no
> > > checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
> > > checking for gethostbyname... yes
> > > checking for connect... yes
> > > checking for remove... yes
> > > checking for shmat... yes
> > > checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
> > > checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > > checking X11/xpm.h usability... yes
> > > checking X11/xpm.h presence... yes
> > > checking for X11/xpm.h... yes
> > > checking for XpmReadFileToPixmap in -lXpm... yes
> > > checking whether ptys or pipes should be used... pipes
> > > configure: creating ./config.status
> > > config.status: creating Makefile
> > > config.status: creating cmail
> > > config.status: creating xboard.texinfo
> > > config.status: creating config.h
> > > config.status: config.h is unchanged
> > > config.status: executing default commands
> > >
> > >
> > ==========================================================================================
> > > 3) make
> > >  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c parser.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c xboard.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c backend.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c moves.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c childio.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c gamelist.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c lists.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c pgntags.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c xgamelist.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c xedittags.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c xhistory.c
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c zippy.c
> > > gcc -o xboard  parser.o xboard.o backend.o moves.o childio.o gamelist.o
> > > lists.o pgntags.o xgamelist.o xedittags.o xhistory.o zippy.o
> > > -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXaw  -lXmu  -lXt -lXext -lXpm  -lSM -lICE -lX11   -lm
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -c zic2xpm.c
> > > gcc -o zic2xpm zic2xpm.o
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > ==========================================================================================
> > > 4) ./xboard -debug
> > >
> > > recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal
> > > resolved -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* at pixel size 34
> > >   to -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-182-iso8859-1
> > > resolved -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* at pixel size 14
> > >   to -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-82-iso8859-1
> > > resolved -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* at pixel size 14
> > >   to -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-77-iso8859-1
> > > xboard 4.2.7 + gnuchessx
> > > Reset(1, 0) from gameMode 0
> > > recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal
> > > GameEnds(0, (null), 2)
> > > StartChildProcess (dir="") gnuchessx
> > > 367 >first : xboard
> > > protover 2
> > > 374 <first : gnuchessx: No such file or directory
> > > xboard: Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx on localhost:
> > > gnuchessx: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > GameEnds(0, (null), 2)
> > > 2908 >first : force
> > > 2908 >first : quit
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   Thanks !!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Ketan
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tim Mann  address@hidden  http://tim-mann.org/
> >


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