From 95772c234f0afaf88ef01854868c93ff2e8a20fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:25:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Install engines as ./exefile in XBoard
When a path name is split into directory and filename, the latter in Linux
must be preceded by ./ in order to make it executable in the directory
XBoard starts it in.
---
backend.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/backend.c b/backend.c
index 5696701..b1d35a9 100644
--- a/backend.c
+++ b/backend.c
@@ -920,6 +920,7 @@ Load (ChessProgramState *cps, int i)
p[-1] = 0;
appData.directory[i] = strdup(engineName);
p[-1] = SLASH;
+ if(SLASH == '/' && p - engineName > 1) *(p -= 2) = '.'; // for XBoard use ./exeName as command after split!
} else appData.directory[i] = ".";
if(params[0]) {
if(strchr(p, ' ') && !strchr(p, '"')) snprintf(buf2, MSG_SIZ, "\"%s\"", p), p = buf2; // quote if it contains spaces
--
1.7.0.4