Re: Arasan

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Michel.

On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Michel Van den Bergh wrote:
> Would anyone be interested in packaging (or just sponsoring) the
> chess engine Arasan?

Do you have a Debian package ready?

Anyway, I hacked one together, but it is not ready for
upload due to the embedded copy of libz. I have a patch that
removes and tries to dynamically link it (in debian/patches),
but that does not work - no idea why.

If someone wants to send patches, happy!

for amd64:

deb http://www.preining.info/debian/ arasan/
deb-src http://www.preining.info/debian/ arasan/

or get source:
dget http://www.preining.info/debian/arasan/arasan_17.4.0-0.1.dsc

or only the binary:
wget http://www.preining.info/debian/arasan/arasan_17.4.0-0.1_amd64.deb

Tried it with xboard, worked, but the binary is running 100% CPU time
even when it is my turn ... not good. Other engines sleep while it
is my turn.

THe installer tries to do some chmod u+s which I don't allow.
Probably for editing/adding some learned stuff (what I read from
the docs), but that is not an option.

If someone else wants to help/contribute, I push the current status
to a git repo for collaboration.


Norbert

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