Re: chess

[James Morrison <rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com>]

--- "David K. Trudgett" <dkt@registriesltd.com.au> wrote:
> On Monday 2001-10-29 at 11:15:54 +0000, James Troup wrote:
>
> > Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> writes:
> >
> > > Buildd tried building 'chess' this afternoon, and got hung up
> on it.
> > > Can someone please try this?  I seem to remember it failing to
> build
> > > before, too.
> >
> > chess takes an insane amount of time to build even on very fast
> > machines; I'd seriously consider ignoring it if I were you until
> the
> > maintainer can be convinced not to do the book build on every
> single
> > architecture.  YMMV
>
> Last time I did it, it took something like two days to compile on a
> Pentium 166 :-) That's gotta be some sort of record ;-)
>
> David Trudgett

Well hey, I'm have recently completed the compile of GNU chess.  It
took
somewhere around 2 days.  However, there is a packaging problem with
this
package as well as with mtools I think.  anyway, dpkg-buildpackage
segfaults
on line 2: 17039 Seg Fault     "$@".

=====
James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

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