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[PATCH] gnu: xboard: Patch path to aplay.

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From: Michael Rohleder <mike <at> rohleder.de>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48158 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#48158] [PATCH] gnu: xboard: Patch path to aplay.
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 18:13:32 +0200

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Hi Ludo,

Thank you for reviewing!

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Incidentally, the following still breaks on the first move:
>
>   $ guix environment --ad-hoc xboard -- xboard
>   […]
>   xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe
>
> At first sight the reason may be that it doesn’t find ‘fairymax’ (what’s
> that?) in $PATH.  I’m sure I’m missing something obvious, but I wonder
> if we could make it work out of the box.
>
> Thoughts?
>

Yes, I think that is https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45236

fairymax is a (simple) chessengine.

I plan to fix this issue (also via the xboard.conf), so that gnuchess
gets the default configured engine, after this one here is merged...

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