Bug#541181: fairymax as default engine compiled in leads to failures at startup

[Oliver Korff]

Package: xboard
Version: 4.4.0~alpha6-1
Severity: important


As I tried to use xboard it comes up with the failure message:

xboard: Failed to start first chess program fairymax on localhost: 
fairymax: No such file or directory

a grep through the sources produce:

xboard.h:#define FIRST_CHESS_PROGRAM    "fairymax"
xboard.h:#define SECOND_CHESS_PROGRAM   "fairymax"
xboard.texi:Default: @file{Fairy-Max}.
xboard.texi:Default: @file{Fairy-Max}

There should NOT be any default engine! This failure leads to others if 
you start other engines with
"xboard -fcp engine1 -scp engine2"; maybe this is in the sources 
upstream. Did you EVER test xboard
after the update?

Oliver


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-openvz-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xboard depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-23     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxpm4                       1:3.5.7-2  X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.5-3  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xaw3dg                        1.5+E-17   Xaw3d widget set

Versions of packages xboard recommends:
ii  xfonts-100dpi                 1:1.0.0-4  100 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-75dpi                  1:1.0.0-4  75 dpi fonts for X

Versions of packages xboard suggests:
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.26.2-2   The GNOME terminal emulator 
applic
ii  gnuchess                      5.07-5     Plays a game of chess, 
either agai
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.2.4-1  X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]   244-1      X terminal emulator

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