On 2015-06-11, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-06-11, Helmut Jarausch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> has anybody any luck in running games-board/gnubg ?
>
> Not recently (within the past year or so), but I played it on and off
> for a few years before that. I don't remember if I used an ebuild or
> just installed from CVS sources.
I got curious and just did "emerge -av gnubg". It compiled and
installed fine, and it seems to work. When invoked from the command
line I see this:
$ gnubg
GNU Backgammon 1.04.000 Jun 11 2015
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Gary Wong.
Copyright (C) 2014 by Gary Wong and the AUTHORS; for details type show
version'.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type show
warranty'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions; type show copying' for details.
(No game) set gui showids on
(No game) save settings
(No game)
And then the GUI board displays as it should.
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