On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 01:07:35AM +0100, Philippe wrote: > My first question is : what is the difference between 1.06.001 and > 1.06.002 ?
The most important difference is a fix for a critical bug in the Windows version. On other platforms there is nothing really significant. > Second question : I compiled 1.06.002 and installed it but there was no > sound despite all the wAV files where in the proper directory. The > Ubuntu repository version works fine. Does Help / About GNU Backgammon / Build Info shows : "libcanberra sound system supported" in its list of features ? In principle it could be another sound system but on Ubuntu it is almost certainly canberra. If this is not the case you don't have the needed development packages installed. There is no glaring error message at build time, only a : "checking for CANBERRA... no" instead of "checking for CANBERRA... yes" in the output of the configure command and then GNUbg is built without sound support. On Ubuntu 19.10 I have : libcanberra-dev libcanberra-gtk-common-dev libcanberra-gtk-dev It was probably the same with 18.04 and installing the third one should pull the other two as dependencies. There is a short explanation about the prerequisites in the INSTALL file, but it's difficult to be specific about the packages names there since they vary from distribution to distribution.
