Re: [gnugo-devel] a GG3.53 very bad game

[Jens Yllman]

--enable-color --without-curses worked just fine on cygwin without the dev
libs for ncurses. When using --without-curses it detects ANSI color.

Jens

> Jens Yllman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just want to comment on rxvt in cygwin. I used to get colour in rxvt
>> on cygwin platform. But a test today with gnugo v3.5.4 did not show
>> colours. Then I remembered that I had to do something at compile time
>> to get it to work earlier. So I took a look at the log from configure
>> and found that colour support(curses) was not found. Ahhh, now I
>> remember. I did some changes before in detecting colours. Then I
>> looked at my cygwin installation. And I found that I did not have
>> libncurses installed. So I installed libncurses and run ./configure
>> again. Ahhh, now colour detection. And now, colour support.
>>
>> I guess there are other libs that work for gnugo to give colour
>> support. But I have no knowledge how the code in gnugo is written for
>> colour support.
>>
>
>
> There used to be a build option where you could tell it to generate
> ansi escape codes directly, rather than using a terminal library.
>
> In 3.4 configure.in there's some some stuff for ANSI_COLOR
>
> It looks like, maybe, the default is to detect curses/terminfo.
> But if you explicitly ask for colour, and it can't find the libraries,
> it will fall back to ansi colour.
>
> ie  --enable-color --without-curses  may have forced it down this path ?
>
>
> dd
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