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Check this experimental WIP branch https://github.com/tico-tico/Rodent_III/tree/relative_paths .

Now on linux you MUST set BOOKSPATH and PERSONALITIESPATH.
basic.ini lives in PERSONALITIESPATH. Paths of personalities are relative to PERSONALITIESPATH (or absolute).
Paths of books are relative to BOOKSPATH (or absolute).

I can't properly test it on Linux 'coz I don't use Linux myself. I have Arch on VirtualBox and the only thing i can say to you is "it can be compiled".

Changing of Makefile is on you too, linux dudes and dudettes.

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but your update of makefile is not included :-) ...So, it doesnt compile at first place ..SORRY (but no big deal)

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but your update of makefile is not included :-)

just like i said, i haven't changed makefile coz i don't use linux and don't know how to change it for your satisfaction

Changing of Makefile is on you too

see this line?

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sorry, yes i saw it
but i mean your changes y did on #40.

forgive me please

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Actually those changes from #40 are included, Maybe you trying a wrong branch? You need this one https://github.com/tico-tico/Rodent_III/archive/relative_paths.zip

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my fault...
startup working so far, now testing it inside picochess (takes some time)

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If picochess can show output from the engine then check out info strings from Rodent. It reports fail/success on book and personalities opening.

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with RodentII i had the problem that the personalities book files weren't loaded. That was an error for long, cause hidden - and i had to patch the C code (which i don't like) ....right now, looks better.

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I changed our pers files, and removed the "book/" infront, cause i now set the bookpath ending on "books"

Here is the debug log from picochess:

2017-08-14 17:42:02.284 DEBUG uci - on_line_received: <PopenProcess at 0x7f833183ed68 (pid=15312)> >> info string opening book file 'hist/_post06.bin' (success/m)

2017-08-14 17:42:02.285 DEBUG uci - send_line: <PopenProcess at 0x7f833183ed68 (pid=15312)> << setoption name GuideBookFile value players/ph-anand2.bin

ups..
2017-08-14 17:42:02.288 DEBUG uci - on_line_received: <PopenProcess at 0x7f833183ed68 (pid=15312)> >> info string opening book file 'players/ph-anand2.bin' (success/m)

All fine, as it seems.

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basically my Makefile now looks this way:

DATADIR = $(PREFIX)/rodent3

BOOKSDIR = $(DATADIR)/books

PERSONALITIESDIR = $(DATADIR)/personalities

CXX = g++

CFG = -DNDEBUG -DUSEGEN -DUSE_THREADS -DNEW_THREADS -DBOOKSPATH=$(BOOKSDIR) -DPERSONALITIESPATH=$(PERSONALITIESDIR)
CFG1 = -DUSEGEN -DUSE_THREADS -DNEW_THREADS -DBOOKSPATH=$(BOOKSDIR) -DPERSONALITIESPATH=$(PERSONALITIESDIR)

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I changed our pers files, and removed the "book/" infront, cause i now set the bookpath ending on "books"

All personalities book paths in the rep are without books/ prefix already.

2017-08-14 17:42:02.288 DEBUG uci - on_line_received: <PopenProcess at 0x7f833183ed68 (pid=15312)> >> info string opening book file 'players/ph-anand2.bin' (success/m)

For some time RodentIII has a ability to fully cache opening books into memory (see this /m letter after success?). It helpful for PC's with rotating/mechanical HDD.
I don't know that picochess is, but if it don't use any HDD you may want to disable the ability. I just added checking for NO_BOOK_IN_MEMORY which you may add into your makefile.
Just -DNO_BOOK_IN_MEMORY .
Don't forget to redownload https://github.com/tico-tico/Rodent_III/archive/relative_paths.zip beforehand.

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target platform for picochess is raspberry pi => the program is on a sdcard.

i had such copied my old rodent2 pers files, and changed them .... should be updated for rodent3 => but it was just a quick test.

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target platform for picochess is raspberry pi => the program is on a sdcard.

sdcards sometime can be really dead slow. maybe it's better to keep full caching intact if you have enough RAM of source. by default Rodent fully caches books < 16 MB in size.

basically my Makefile now looks this way:

What about "install" you mentioned in the OP?

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i install all by myself :-)

i left this away (its easy to change) , cause the makefile with its path's is also special for picochess.
=>users prob. not follow my way to organize files. The makefile is working so far like the relative paths y did.
Also this pers files need to be changed to some ini files (we call them *uci files)...Thats all special.

Thanks!

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we use something like this:
GuideBookFile = guide/steinitz.bin
MainBookFile = hist/_pre30.bin

[Tarrasch]
; Tarrasch personality for Rodent III chess engine
; author: Pawel Koziol
; mobility, emphasis on bishops, likes open game

=> this steinitz.bin is MISSING (since rodent2 already)

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Following bin files are missing:

guide/mini.bin
ph-gambitbook.bin
ph-exoticbook.bin
players/marshall.bin
players/reti.bin
guide/steinitz.bin

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If you think it's a bug then you'd better create a separate bug-report and some day Pawel will add missing books to the repo. Otherwise your report here can be just lost and forgotten.

In the meantime you can check windows distribution here https://github.com/nescitus/Rodent_III/blob/master/windows_distrib/distrib_full.zip , it has some missing books like steinitz.bin.

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