I tried the new parallel version and I noticed that xboard was using 88% cpu.
I also tried compiling the xboard gtk-20100806 version on Ubuntu 8.04 which was referred to in the previous post. The problem is that 8.04 is quite an old version of ubuntu. It uses automake 1.10 (1.11 required) and gtk+ 2.12.9 (2.16.0 required). The code contains references to gtk_widget_get_visible and GtkEntryBuffer which aren't available in 2.12. I managed to compile it though by: commenting out #AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) in configure.ac changing gtk+ 2.16.0 dependency in configure.ac to 2.12.0 comment out the code in xedittags.c GTK_create_tag routine and return False comment out the code in xgamelist.c GameListIsUp routine and return False comment out the code in xhistory.c MoveHistoryIsUp routine and return False To make it run I had to change gtk-interface.xml and comment out the requires 2.16. It then ran on Ubuntu 8.04 but some functions won't work due to the above changes (no menubar, no engine or move windows). I did play a few moves against fairymax though. It's probably easier to move to a newer Ubuntu than backport xboardgtk. John Cheetham
