Re: [gnugo-devel] Building GNU go - have I done it?

[Marco Scheurer]

On Jun 27, 2005, at 04:12, Lou Cohen wrote:

> Dear GNU developers,
>
> Many thanks for making a go-playing program available as open source
> software. I learned about GNU go by running gGo, which provides an  
> option to
> interface to GNU go. Of course I had not downloaded GNU go so I  
> went to your
> website and downloaded the sources. Hmmmm, sources, not a binary!  
> well, what
> do I know? I'll give it a try. I've never built a program on my Mac  
> before,
> but maybe I can figure it out.
>
> To make a long story short, I don't actually know if I've succeeded.
>
> Below is the very long output that I got when I typed ./configure;  
> make.
>
> I didn't dare run as wheel, I've never done it, so I figured  
> perhaps I could
> make the executable file and point gGo to it.
>
> My question is: have I succeeded?

I think so.

> When gGo asks me "where is GNU go", what
> do I tell it?

It's in the interface folder, but you can take it and move it  
elsewhere. Another Terminal command that you can run after  
"configure" and "make" is:

cd interface
strip gnugo

This will remove unnecessary symbols from the file and reduce its size.

marco


Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland   http://www.sente.ch