Package Details: scidb-svn 1.0.beta.r1531-7

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/scidb-svn.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: scidb-svn
Description: Chess database browser: chess, chess960, etc engines; import Chessbase, PGN, Scid; CQL
Upstream URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidb
Licenses: GPL2
Conflicts: scidb
Submitter: qqqqqqqqq9
Maintainer: blacktav
Last Packager: blacktav
Votes: 8
Popularity: 0.000356
First Submitted: 2013-09-18 07:20 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2023-12-02 16:50 (UTC)

Pinned Comments

blacktav commented on 2022-04-04 19:19 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-05 12:01 (UTC) by blacktav)

Latest release r1531 has been built with no debugging so it is relatively small & nimble. But you will get no debugging information if it breaks. It is quite stable though (but still beta), check upstream for known bugs & problems Two chess engines have been included though quite old versions (2018 or earlier)

  • Sjeng v11.3
  • Stockfish v6

Import of data files is supported from

  • PGN text files
  • Scid si3 & sc4 files
  • Chessbase
  • plus others

Scidb also supports ChessQL (CQL++) searching plus Chess960 and other game rules

Latest Comments

blacktav commented on 2023-12-02 16:52 (UTC)

Could not replicate your problem Removed the clean statement anyway; must have been an artifact of testing

Niinu commented on 2023-12-02 15:25 (UTC) (edited on 2023-12-02 15:45 (UTC) by Niinu)

Running make manually works but makepkg fails with below. Edit: removing the line 105 from the PKGBUILD fixes the issue with makepkg, why are we even running a make clean before make install instead of after?!

make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'app/libapp.a', needed by 'cbh2si4'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

blacktav commented on 2022-04-04 19:19 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-05 12:01 (UTC) by blacktav)

Latest release r1531 has been built with no debugging so it is relatively small & nimble. But you will get no debugging information if it breaks. It is quite stable though (but still beta), check upstream for known bugs & problems Two chess engines have been included though quite old versions (2018 or earlier)

  • Sjeng v11.3
  • Stockfish v6

Import of data files is supported from

  • PGN text files
  • Scid si3 & sc4 files
  • Chessbase
  • plus others

Scidb also supports ChessQL (CQL++) searching plus Chess960 and other game rules

blacktav commented on 2022-04-03 15:37 (UTC)

This package and upstream repo do not currently build on Arch. I will try and construct a new version that will work

eyolf commented on 2016-11-03 13:56 (UTC)

I get the following error in the pacakage() part of the build: ==> Starting package()... Install man pages install: cannot create regular file '/usr/share/man/man1/scidb-beta.1.gz': Permission denied make[1]: *** [Makefile:31: install] Error 1 make: *** [Makefile:77: install-subdirs] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().

Peter_Littmann commented on 2014-01-01 12:24 (UTC)

The svn fetches version 985 which declares itself as 1.0-Beta. Got this error: ./configure not found The make clean is not a problem, but you should change: prepare() { cp -r $srcdir/$_realpkgname $srcdir/$_realpkgname-build } to: prepare() { cp -r $srcdir/$_realpkgname/* $srcdir/$_realpkgname-build }

kraxor commented on 2013-10-28 05:24 (UTC)

Got this error: ==> Starting build()... Makefile:13: Makefile.in: No such file or directory ****** Please use the 'configure' script before building Scidb ****** Makefile:73: recipe for target 'Makefile.in' failed make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... Removed "make clean" from build(), compiles fine afterwards.

qqqqqqqqq9 commented on 2013-09-19 16:45 (UTC)

I know, for more information please look here: https://sourceforge.net/p/scidb/bugs/55/ I am not completely sure, how to handle the mime-stuff.

archtux commented on 2013-09-19 16:37 (UTC)

Checked out revision 945. -> Found scidb-svn.desktop -> Found scidb-svn.install -> Found configure.patch -> Found best_move.cpp.patch -> Found cbh2si4.cpp.patch -> Found cdb2sci.cpp.patch -> Found mime.patch ==> Validating source files with md5sums... trunk ... Skipped scidb-svn.desktop ... Passed scidb-svn.install ... Passed configure.patch ... Passed best_move.cpp.patch ... Passed cbh2si4.cpp.patch ... Passed cdb2sci.cpp.patch ... Passed mime.patch ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Creating working copy of trunk svn repo... ==> Starting prepare()... patching file trunk-build/freedesktop.org/Makefile Hunk #1 FAILED at 75. Hunk #2 FAILED at 166. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file trunk-build/freedesktop.org/Makefile.rej ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting...