reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output
(useful mainly for debugging `configure').
- If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
-to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
-diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
-be considered for the next release. If at some point `config.cache'
-contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.
-
- The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program
-called `autoconf'. You only need `configure.in' if you want to change
-it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
+ The file `configure.ac' is used to create `configure' by a program
+called `autoconf'. You only need `configure.ac' if you want to change
+it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of
+`autoconf'. Please use the autogen.sh shell script, which will run all
+the autotools to generate the `configure' script if it is missing.
The simplest way to compile this package is:
If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also
use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
produce code for and the `--build=TYPE' option to select the type of
-system on which you are compiling the package.
+system on which you are compiling the package.
Sharing Defaults
================
-** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.2.7 **
+** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.4.0 **
XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can
serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess
chess.
A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version
-4.2.7 corrects about two dozen bugs in the 4.2.6 release. See the
-ChangeLog for a list. In addition, WinBoard 4.2.7 comes bundled with
-GNU Chess 5.07 instead of the old 5.02+ version. The XBoard and
-WinBoard source code trees have been merged, so the xboard download
-now contains the complete source for both.
+4.4.0 includes many changes. It is the first major release of
+xboard/winboard after a fork of the project after version 4.2.7. It
+includes small changes made in the main line and changes made by a
+fork of Alessandro Scotti and lots of changes made afterwards by
+H.G. Muller (released as versions 4.3.x). This release represents a
+unified version of all changes made after the fork. It includes many
+new features and bugfixes.
-The various larger contributions that people have submitted since the
-4.2.6 release are not yet included in 4.2.7. The source code for
-these contributions is now available, however (see
-http://www.tim-mann.org/extensions.html), and we plan to include most
-of them in a future release once the contributors complete necessary
-copyright assignment paperwork.
+You can get both XBoard and WinBoard from the Savannah
+project pages:
-You can get both XBoard and WinBoard from either our new Savannah
-project pages or their existing pages on Tim Mann's web site:
+https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/
-- https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/
-- http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
-
-Most of the known bugs and deficiencies in previous versions have
-*not* been addressed in this release. It is not necessary to report
-your favorite bug again if you have reported it before, unless the
-ChangeLog erroneously says it has been fixed. Most known bugs,
-deficiencies, and suggestions received are now listed in the ToDo
-file. If you find a bug not listed there, please report it in the bug
-tracker at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/ or by email to
-bug-xboard [AT] tim-mann.org.
+If you find a bug, please report it in the bug tracker at
+https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/ or by email to bug-xboard
+(AT) gnu.org.
+++ /dev/null
-
-What is XBoard?
-===============
-XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can
-serve as a user interface for chess engines such as GNU Chess, for the
-Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess.
-XBoard can also be used by itself. See the manual page xboard.txt for
-further details.
-
-XBoard is free software, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation
-and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file
-COPYING for details.
-
-You can build xboard on most systems with the following commands.
-
- ./configure
- make
-
-See the file INSTALL for more detailed instructions.
-
-See the file FAQ.html for answers to frequently asked questions.
-
-
-What is WinBoard?
-=================
-WinBoard is a port of XBoard to run natively on Windows. It is part
-of the XBoard project and is released under the same terms as XBoard.
-
-You can build WinBoard using the free Cygwin toolchain from
-www.cygnus.com with the following commands.
-
- cd winboard
- make -f cygwin.mak
-
-You can build WinBoard using Microsoft Visual C with the following
-commands, or by opening the project in Visual Studio and clicking the
-build button.
-
- cd winboard
- nmake -f msvc.mak
-
-There is also a contributed .mak file for Borland C. It's not
-maintained and thus may need updating if you want to use it.
-
-
-Reporting problems
-==================
-
-Report bugs and problems with XBoard and WinBoard to
-<bug-xboard@gnu.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program
-to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug command line option,
-and include the typescript output in your message. With WinBoard,
-please use the /debug command line option and include the contents of
-the file WinBoard.debug. Also tell us what kind of machine and what
-operating system version you are using. On Unix, the command "uname
--a" will tell you this. On Windows, right-click on My Computer and
-select Properties.
-
-Here is a sample of approximately what you should type (on Unix):
-
- script
- uname -a
- ./configure
- make
- ./xboard -debug
- exit
- mail bug-xboard@gnu.org
- Subject: Your short description of the problem
- Your detailed description of the problem
- ~r typescript
- .
-
-If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and
-we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line
-of development.
-
-Version 4.3.14
-==============
-
-This relaese was not made by the GNU xboard team, but by H.G.Muller.
-It mainly contains developments on WinBoard. Nevertheless, an attempt
-has been started to back-port the enormous number of improvements that
-have been made to WinBoard since the Linux and Windows developments branched
-to xboard. This is reflected by the source tree now having the same format
-as that of xboard 4.2.7, including all the xboard sources.
-
-An enormous amount of work still has to be done to make the xboard version
-fully equivalent to WinBoard, especially on user-interface side. As a modest
-beginning, the xboard source files have been patched to allow their compilation
-with the newer back-end files from WinBoard. To this end, the number of piece
-types in xboard has been increased from 6 to 22, and the WinBoard bitmaps
-have been converted to xboard source format (.bm) and are included in the
-xboard bitmaps directory. Other quick patches include the coloring of the
-board squares (for xiangqi and holdings), and some code in the user-move
-handling to suppress all moves into or out of the area between board and
-holdings in crazyhouse, and the treatment of king-captures-own-piece
-as a possibly valid move (for FRC castling). This should make it possible
-to run xboard with the new back-end files without too much inconvenience.
-
-New xboard command-line options have been added to make the added back-end
-features available. The include the new variants (as argument of the old
--variant option), -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingsSize. Be sure
-to call xboard with "-boardSize middling" or "-boardSize bulky" if you
-want to play with fairy pieces, or xboard might crash due to unavailability
-of bitmaps. Other added xboard options are:
-
-ADJUDICATION OPTIONS:
--checkMates
--testClaims
--materialDraws
--trivialDraws
--ruleMoves
--repeatsToDraw
--adjudicateLossThreshold
--firstScoreAbsolute
--secondScoreAbsolute
-
-TIME-CONTROL OPTIONS
--firstTimeOdds
--secondTimeOdds
--timeOddsMode
--firstNPS
--secondNPS
-
-GENERAL OPTIONS
--matchPause
--engineDebugOutput
--userName
--pgnExtendedInfo
--pgnEventHeader
--hideThinkingFromHuman
-
-This is all completely untested, but as the options merely switch on well-tested
-code in the back-end, there should not be too many problems with them.
-Bugs can be reported in the WinBoard forum.
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