From: engel@netcom.com (Mike Engelhardt) Subject: Re: Help with Xboard and Slingshot Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 22:36:18 GMT
t90yxq9@mp.cs.niu.edu (Qian Yang):
> Yesterday I have tried to compile Xboard, but fail several times.
> Besides that I have problem with Slingshot ( SLS distribution )
> Has anyone successfully did that and willing to share your
> experience with me ? If you have already done that, would you
> please send me a patch ? Any help will be appreciated.
The problem I had was that the parser.l file was not compatable with
flex. The parser.l file made a .c file that had yywrap both as a
define and a function, which would lead to a syntax error after cpp.
There were also three other similiar types of problems.
I just lex'ed the parser.l file on a Sun and it then made fine. This
is probably the safest thing to do. I also made a patch for the
parser.l file that comments out the redefinition of all the default
functions so that it makes(and uses the default functions), if anyone's
really interested. The patch kit is against the xboard found amoungst
the GNU stuff with three different boardsizes, not the one usually
found in the X11 stuff. Both executables seem to work fine.
Mike E.
engel@netcom.com
engel@sj.ate.slb.com