[Computer-go] Pachi on cygwin

[Petr Baudis]

  Hi!

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:11:13AM -0500, Michael Williams wrote:
> I just build the latest Pachi on the patest Cygwin.  I got some warnings
> but no errors.  It does not crash when I run it.  It does show it's
> thinking process when I give it a genmove command.  But when it is done
> thinking, it does not print the result and prompt for the next command as
> expected.  Instead it just hangs.  Any ideas?

  That seems curious. The only problematic thing that happens at this
point I can think of is joining the thinking thread. Try with -d 4, it
should report thread management information. I'm afraid you'd have
to use a debugger to make further progress, though.

  Even more curious is the fact that people building Pachi using mingw
report no such troubles, there is even a binary available for download
that works fine even when using multiple search threads.

>  $ ./pachi.exe
> Random seed: 1327809195
> play b e5
> IN: play b e5
> got move 1,5,5
> Fresh board with random seed 1327809195
> Warning: Cannot promote move node! Several play commands in row?
> Move:   1  Komi: 0.0  Handicap: 0  Captures B: 0 W: 0
  ...

  Are you sure this is latest Pachi? It does not print messages like
this anymore with default debug level.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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