Re: [XBoard-devel] xboard: No value provided for argument -firstChessProgram

[h . g . muller]

This error message would be printed when during parsing of options it runs
into the end of the line or file when it expects a value. And it then
litterally prints the option for which it expected the value.

>From this you can see that it did not object to your command line, because
your command line contains only '-fcp', and not '-firstChessProgram'. That
these mean the same is entirely coincidental; I expect you would get the
same error message when you would do "xboard -ncp". The message must refer
to something it reads from a settings file. The settings files are read
before the arguments on the command line is parsed.

As '-firstChessProgram' is a volatile option XBoard would never save it in
the user settings file. So it must be in the master settings file,
/etc/xboard.conf (or in some distros /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, or when you
installed from source perhaps /usr/local/etc/xboard.conf). That file must
somehow contain an syntactically incorrect -firstChessProgram option. But
that is not the case in the version we distribute.

Op Za, 5 december, 2015 5:02 am schreef DWL:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm getting the Subject message when I execute 'xboard' from the command
> line. Unfortunately, the man page and web page don't offer much useful
> information about what argument is valid for this option. If I try this:
>
> xboard -fcp gnuchess
>
> or this:
>
> xboard -fcp -gnuchessx
>
> I get the same message.
>
>
> Relevant version information:
>
>
> % xboard --version
> xboard version 4.8.0
>
> % gnuchess --version
> GNU Chess 6.2.2
>
>
> Host platform is FreeBSD 10.2.
>
>
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> dan
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>
>