On 6 Mar 2011, at 19:25, h.g. muller wrote: >> Also, the XBoard manual says that the default location for polyglot is >> /usr/local/share/polyglot. The polyglot-1.4.64b I used installs in >> /usr/local/bin/, the default location on BSD systems. The directory share/ >> is reserved for system-independent files. > > Well, this definitely is an error in the manual. In fact the compiled-in > default for -polyglotDir is "", and we set that again in the master settings > file we distribute. > > It should not matter how this option is set, as long as the Polyglot binary > is in the path. XBoard changes to the -polyglotDir before issung the > -adapterCommand. No matter what that is,Polyglot will then change to the > directory of the engine (given in -fd or-sd) before starting it.
I had no problems running it when giving no specification, only 'polyglot' and the engines being in the path (in /usr/local/bin/ on my machine). > It could be that it matters for where Polyglot makes the log file, but yo > would typiclly want that in the directory from which you started XBoard. I haven't tried log files yet. It might be good for debugging. _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
