Package Details: scidb-svn 1.0.beta.r1531-10

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 (dankuser)
Last Packager: dankuser
Votes: 9
Popularity: 0.63
First Submitted: 2013-09-18 07:20 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-09-17 21:03 (UTC)

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blacktav commented on 2025-09-17 15:33 (UTC) (edited on 2025-09-17 15:33 (UTC) by blacktav)

Good news, thanks to the efforts of dankuser we now have a functional build again!

However, the latest distributions of gcc 15 are too intolerant for some of the very old standards used in Gregor's codebase; it will build cleanly on gcc 14 though.

Therefore, gcc14 is now tagged as a build dependency.

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

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blacktav commented on 2025-09-13 07:53 (UTC) (edited on 2025-09-13 07:59 (UTC) by blacktav)

@dankuser if they are small, you can post them in comments but, as I expect they are much bigger or complicated, you can send them to me at bb2y9izd0@mozmail.com. If the patch bundle is bigger than 10Mb, I wont get it so let me know first.

dankuser commented on 2025-09-13 02:32 (UTC) (edited on 2025-09-13 05:15 (UTC) by dankuser)

I thought to make some patches after rage-building this... How should I go about making them available?

blacktav commented on 2025-05-19 10:52 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-19 11:29 (UTC) by blacktav)

@markd Confirmed: package currently does not build on Arch

Apart from this error, others will be encountered all of which are beyond me for the moment. I am guessing the compiler has become less forgiving

Doubt I can fix this - need C++ help

markd commented on 2025-05-18 15:36 (UTC)

get compile error with current manjaro: db_tag_set.cpp: In constructor 'db::TagSet::TagSet(db::TagSet&&)': db_tag_set.cpp:86:10: error: array must be initialized with a brace-enclosed initializer [-fpermissive]

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().

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