Re: [9fans] chess?

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

On 5 January 2014 14:12,  <stevie@kamalatta.dyndns.org> wrote:
> % 9fs sources
> % cd /n/sources
> % time grep chess lsr
> ./contrib/steve/root/sys/src/cmd/mkmk/9port/gnu/chess 755 1229510622 697
> ./plan9/sys/src/cmd/gs/examples/chess.ps 664 1137452689 61791
> 0.58u 0.18s 315.60r      grep chess lsr
>
> So here are results I found  ^^^

So now I know there is something in Steve's contrib.
However, I do not really know how to proceed.
It seems to me that
contrib/steve/root/sys/src/cmd/mkmk/9port/gnu/chess
is just some script whose use is one big unknown to me.
Its purpose seems to be to create a mkfile and is probably
intended to be run in a directory with gnuchess source
(which is (?) to be downloaded separately).
I have installed the mkmk thing using contrib/gui, downloaded
the gnuchess source, extracted it, copied the chess script
into it, ran it, but it produced quite a few error messages.

Can anybody tell me what they did to get the chess program
running? (Will there be a board as well?)

Thank you.

Ruda

PS.: It's a pity there isn't such a thing like plan9 that would
just work :)