Re: Possible unbreak for gnuchess 6.3.0

Am Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 02:59:15PM +0000 schrieb Stuart Henderson:
> On 2026/03/12 14:55, Martin Ziemer wrote:
> > Found by pure coincidence, that gnuchessx builds the book even with
> > input from /dev/null. (This broke the port in dpb)
> >
> > Tested on amd64 by building with make < /dev/null and with dpb
> > games/gnuchess.
> >
> > Index: Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/ports/games/gnuchess/Makefile,v
> > diff -u -p -r1.56 Makefile
> > --- Makefile 8 Sep 2025 10:35:20 -0000 1.56
> > +++ Makefile 12 Mar 2026 13:40:15 -0000
> > @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
> > -BROKEN= post-build fails in dpb (or if stdin is redirected from /dev/null)
> > -
> > COMMENT= chess program
> >
> > DISTNAME= gnuchess-6.3.0
> > -REVISION= 0
> > +REVISION= 1
> > DISTFILES= ${DISTNAME}.tar.gz book_1.02.pgn.gz
> >
> > CATEGORIES= games
> > @@ -27,7 +25,7 @@ CONFIGURE_STYLE= gnu
> >
> > post-build:
> > cd ${WRKSRC}/src && ln -sf ../../book_1.02.pgn
> > - cd ${WRKSRC}/src && ./gnuchess --addbook book_1.02.pgn
> > + cd ${WRKSRC}/src && ./gnuchessx --addbook book_1.02.pgn
> >
> > post-install:
> > ${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} \
> >
>
> gnuchessx fails to run unless gnuchess is available on the path.
> It does run if you set PATH=./ (or just run ./gnuchess --xboard, like
> gnuchessx does anyway), however if I do this with input redirecting
> from /dev/null (either "make < /dev/null" or "./gnuchessx ... <
> /dev/null" etc) it still fails in the same old way: prints "Chess"
> then exits immediately, no output is generated.
My bad: I tested last time with a local version which omits the input
checking and forgot i installed this package.

As gnuchessx starts my local installed binary it worked, ...

Sorry!