Compiling C in Linux

[keivn dodd]

I downloaded GNU chess off of the web but it is uncompiled. I'm trying to figure out how to compile it from source.

/root/bin/chess
|-- AUTHORS
|-- COPYING
|-- CVS
| |-- Entries
| |-- Entries.Log
| |-- Repository
| `-- Root
|-- ChangeLog
|-- INSTALL
|-- Makefile.am
|-- Makefile.in
|-- NEWS
|-- README
|-- TODO
|-- acinclude.m4
|-- aclocal.m4
|-- book
| |-- CVS
| | |-- Entries
| | |-- Repository
| | `-- Root
| `-- README
|-- configure
|-- configure.ac
|-- depcomp
|-- doc
| |-- CVS
| | |-- Entries
| | |-- Repository
| | `-- Root
| |-- ChangeLog
| |-- INSTALL
| `-- README
|-- install-sh
|-- missing
|-- mkinstalldirs
`-- src
|-- CVS
| |-- Entries
| |-- Repository
| `-- Root
|-- Makefile.am
|-- Makefile.in
|-- atak.c
|-- book.c
|-- book.h
|-- cmd.c
|-- common.h
|-- config.h.in
|-- epd.c
|-- eval.c
|-- eval.h
|-- genmove.c
|-- hash.c
|-- hung.c
|-- init.c
|-- inlines.h
|-- iterate.c
|-- main.c
|-- move.c
|-- null.c
|-- output.c
|-- pgn.c
|-- players.c
|-- quiesce.c
|-- random.c
|-- repeat.c
|-- search.c
|-- solve.c
|-- sort.c
|-- stamp-h.in
|-- swap.c
|-- test.c
|-- ttable.c
|-- util.c
|-- version.c
`-- version.h

7 directories, 70 files

[Jonathan Simms]

Kevin,

read the INSTALL file for instructions on how to install gnuchess.

[Tim Childers]

Here one example

# tar xvzf package.tar.gz (or tar xvjf package.tar.bz2)
# cd package
# ./configure
# make
# make install

[John LeMieux]

I installed it from the Fedora-8 iso. If you don't have it anymore, prepare for about a 15 hour download with a cable modem. Once I connected the virtual CD to the iso and ejected from X so it didn't show up on the desktop,

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
cp /mnt/Packages/gnuchess* /root/depot/software
cd /root/depot/software
rpm -hiv gnuchess*

That should work.

John