emerge app-emacs/chess-2.0_beta5-r1 installs chess's pixmaps and sounds in subdirectories of /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. These directories are unnecessarily added by Emacs to its load-path. Proposed fix: Pixmaps should go into /usr/share/pixmaps/chess, sounds into /usr/share/sounds/chess. Another issue is that the site-init file does an unconditional "(require 'chess)" where an "autoload" would be sufficient. See commentary in chess.el: ;; To just get a chessboard up, put the following in your .emacs file: ;; (add-to-list 'load-path "<the path to Emacs Chess>") ;; (autoload 'chess "chess" "Play a game of chess" t) Find attached my proposed changes to the ebuild and a new site-init file. It applies (and I have tested it) with chess-2.0_beta5, too, in case you want to maintain a separate stable branch.
Created attachment 111397 [details, diff] Proposed changes to chess-2.0_beta5-r1.ebuild
Created attachment 111398 [details] Site-init file 51chess-gentoo.el
(In reply to comment #0) > Find attached my proposed changes to the ebuild and a new site-init file. It > applies (and I have tested it) with chess-2.0_beta5, too, in case you want to > maintain a separate stable branch. Thanks. Fixed in CVS. I won't do the changes for the stable branch, it was broken for a long time and I wait until Emacs 22 goes stable.
