Re: UCI issue in 6.2.5

[Ryan Sarson]

Hi Antonio!

I'm using the apt installed version of XBoard, 4.9.1-1 amd64, in
Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) x86_64  (Kernel: 4.9.0-9-amd64).

I also use the apt installed version of GNU Chess, 6.2.5-1 amd64.  The
previous version I tried, 6.2.4, I compiled from source
(https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/chess/) and it works as expected without this
bug (ie, the 'White (1) : ' prompt does not appear in UCI mode).

Ryan

On 03/02/2020, Antonio Ceballos <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Thanks for your report. Yes, it seems the same problem that was found a
> couple of years ago. Could you please indicate the version of XBoard and
> operating system that you are using? I don't think it will make a big
> difference,
> but it can be helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> Antonio
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:04 PM Ryan Sarson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have the same issue as John Cheetham, from his post a couple of
>> years ago.  The issue persists with the latest build I could find,
>> 6.2.5e.  I use both Scid and Xboard and, in both cases, they appear to
>> hang when trying to play a game against gnuchessu.  When running
>> gnuchessu from the command line, the appearance of 'White (1) : "
>> requires at least a newline to be entered before the 'uci' command
>> will work as expected.
>>
>> It seems related to the removal of the 'showprompt' and 'ShowPrompt()'
>> lines from main.cc and frontend/engine.cc from 6.2.4 but I do not know
>> enough about C programming to fix it - other things break if i just
>> add the deleted lines back in.
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>