Re: [Bug-gnubg] compiling on linux

[Philippe Michel]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Anders Persson wrote:

> Ok, so here is another question/issue:
>
> I'm trying to compile gnugb on Linux Mint.
>
> Running
> ./configure --prefix=/home/anders/program/gnubg
> make
> make install
>
> Everything looks fine and no error messages. But when trying to run gnugb
> in a terminal, nothing happens. It hangs and uses 100% cpu on one core.
> It's possible to break it with Ctrl-C.
>
> My system: Linux Mint 18.1 xfce 64 bit running on an AMD Athlon 5600+ dual
> core.

What version of the gnubg sources do you use ? Mint's source package ?

Your description looks very much like what was discussed in this thread :
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnubg/2015-10/msg00004.html
and apparently Mint 18 include gnubg 1.05.000 anf gcc5, a combination 
affected by the above issue.

Among the tar files at http://files.gnubg.org/media/sources/ , only the 
most recent one, 1.05.002  has this problem fixed. Pulling the current 
development head as described here at 
http://www.gnubg.org/index.php?itemid=26
should work as well.