Re: [XBoard-devel] gtk and x11 in parallel

[K12]

I tried the new parallel version and I noticed that xboard was using 88% cpu.

I also tried compiling the xboard gtk-20100806 version on Ubuntu 8.04 which was 
referred to in the previous post. The problem is that 8.04 is quite an old 
version of ubuntu. It uses automake 1.10 (1.11 required) and gtk+ 2.12.9 
(2.16.0 required). The code contains references to gtk_widget_get_visible and 
GtkEntryBuffer which aren't available in 2.12.

I managed to compile it though by:
    commenting out #AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) in configure.ac
    changing gtk+ 2.16.0 dependency in configure.ac to 2.12.0
    comment out the code in xedittags.c GTK_create_tag routine and return False
    comment out the code in xgamelist.c GameListIsUp routine and return False
    comment out the code in xhistory.c MoveHistoryIsUp routine and return False 

To make it run I had to change gtk-interface.xml and comment out the requires 
2.16. It then ran on Ubuntu 8.04 but some functions won't work due to the above 
changes (no menubar, no engine or move windows). I did play a few moves against 
fairymax though. It's probably easier to move to a newer Ubuntu than backport 
xboardgtk.

John Cheetham