[XBoard-devel] Re: Fwd: Winboard Source missing sounds folder

[Eric Mullins]

Arun Persaud wrote:
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:        Winboard Source missing sounds folder
> > Date:   Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:34:11 -0800 (PST)
> > From:   A Scott <address@hidden>
> > To:     address@hidden
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > The 4.4.2 source files at this link are the ones missing the sounds
> > folder.Winboard wouldn't compile until the folder was added.
> >
> > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard
> >
> > A. Scott
> >     
>
>
> I got this email a few days ago, but from your latest email on the
> xboard-list I gather that building winboard worked fine? Can you confirm
> this?
>   

The tarball at the above link is missing the sound directory and 
therefore doesn't compile winboard.

> Just had a look at the tar-ball and it seems like the sounds directory
> is missing, so how did you compile it? :)
>   

I was responding to someone's problem with 4.4.1 and d/l that tarball 
which must have had that dir from this page:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/

And BTW, the tarball for 4.4.2 from that page *does* include the sounds 
subdir.

Working outside git is not recommended.  I don't know how we end up with 
packaging errors since the tarballs at git are always correct.

One other thing-- it is advisable to create parser.c any time parser.l 
changes.  I noticed that one reason a recent build (directly from git) 
failed was because parser.c was not up to date, and so flex was 
required.  This situation is only going to cause trouble for people 
trying to build xboard themselves.  Best to make sure the parser.c in 
the winboard directory is always up to date (in particular, wrt 
timestamp) so that make will not try to generate it from parser.l.