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Port details

games/xboard 4.9.1_4

X frontend for Crafty, GNUChess, Chess Servers, or e-mail chess

Port info

Maintainer
mbeis@xs4all.nl
Packages
latest: 4.9.1_4
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 4.9.1_4 · f78b1814a7
Quarterly
2026Q4: 4.9.1_4
WWW
https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
Links
cgit · VuXML

Install

Package
# pkg install xboard
installs 4.9.1_4 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 4.9.1_4
Port
# cd /usr/ports/games/xboard && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/games/xboard config  # change options first
Size
1.3 MiB download · 4.6 MiB installed
Depends on
devel/desktop-file-utils 0.28, devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, devel/glib20 2.88.3,2, games/fairymax 5.0b.20160316.1_2, graphics/cairo 1.18.2,3, graphics/gdk-pixbuf2 2.44.1, graphics/librsvg2-rust 2.62.3_3, misc/shared-mime-info 2.4_2, print/indexinfo 0.3.1_1, x11-toolkits/libXaw 1.0.16,2, x11-toolkits/libXmu 1.3.1,1, x11-toolkits/libXt 1.3.1,1, x11/libICE 1.1.2,1, x11/libSM 1.2.6,1, x11/libX11 1.8.14,1, x11/libXpm 3.5.20
License
GPLv3
Options
4 of 13 on in the package: DOCS FAIRYMAX NLS XAW
Show the 9 options that are off
ALSA CRAFTY GNUCHESS GTK2 KNIGHTCAP PHALANX SOX XAW3D ZIPPY

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 164.9.1_44.9.1_4–
FreeBSD 154.9.1_44.9.1_4–
FreeBSD 144.9.1_44.9.1_44.9.1_4

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 154.9.1_44.9.1_4–
FreeBSD 144.9.1_44.9.1_44.9.1_4

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 4.9.1_4.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (115)

Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.6.0
- Update to xboard 4.6.0 - Remove code patch (fixed upstream) - Honour WITHOUT_NLS to disable NLS support (new in this version)

Feature safe:	yes
3510c262f4
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.5.3
Update xboard to 4.5.3
e0b97bfc06
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.5.2
Correct function definition (to fix building with clang)
77cd83952d
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.5.2
Update xboard to 4.5.2
13ac333f78
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.5.1
Add xboard OPTIONS to install optional chess engine backends.

PR:		ports/156592
Submitted by:	Kalten <kalten@gmx.at>
58f0a013d1
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.5.1
Update xboard to 4.5.1
76271846df
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.5.0
Update xboard to 4.5.0 http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.5.0/
c768a3f3db
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.4.4
Update xboard to 4.4.4 (bugfix release)
c40f8b0adf
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.4.3
Update to 4.4.3
975c8e0074
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.4.2
Update my mail address to @FreeBSD.org

Feature safe:	yes
532e84e129
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.4.2
- Update to 4.4.2 - Remove autotools run and another patch that's no longer required
fe7dc8ad00
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.4.1
- Update to 4.4.1 (many minor bugfixes) - This release no longer includes the pxboard and zic2xpm scripts
abd3dffa93
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.4.0
- Update to 4.4.0 - Use PLIST_FILES rather than pkg-plist

Feature safe:	yes
7bf61596df
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.4.0
- Update to 4.4.0 - Use autotools (unfortunately required) - WITH_XAW3D is now set using OPTIONS - Add patch to install supported scripts included in older versions - Add patch to set gnuchessx as engine (like in older versions)

Feature safe:	yes
d5a103fe04
Mark Linimon (linimon) · 4.2.7_3
Mark as broken on sparc64: fails to install (problem with texi2html).

Hat:		portmgr
e24898dac6
Johan van Selst (johans) · 4.2.7_3
- Fix build (remove unused html file) - Claim maintainership - Remove unneeded patchfiles - Fix build dependencies
7f83437f2f
Erwin Lansing (erwin) · 4.2.7_3
Mark BROKEN: does not build.
6a9066d778
Florent Thoumie (flz) · 4.2.7_3
- Update X.org ports to 7.4+ (few ports are more recent than the katamari). - Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libglut since the shlib version number went from 4 to 3. - Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libXaw as libXaw.so.8 isn't installed anymore. - Couple of ports fixes (mostly missing xorg components added to USE_XORG).
340b57f8be
Martin Wilke (miwi) · 4.2.7_2
- Remove unneeded dependency from gtk12/gtk20 [1] - Remove USE_XLIB/USE_X_PREFIX/USE_XPM in favor of USE_XORG - Remove X11BASE support in favor of LOCALBASE or PREFIX - Use USE_LDCONFIG instead of INSTALLS_SHLIB - Remove unneeded USE_GCC 3.4+

Thanks to all Helpers:
	Dmitry Marakasov, Chess Griffin, beech@, dinoex, rafan, gahr,
	ehaupt, nox, itetcu, flz, pav

PR:		116263
Tested on:	pointyhat
Approved by:	portmgr (pav)
3e4ed01146
Martin Matuska (mm) · 4.2.7_2
- Depend explicitly on USE_XORG= xt xpm xaw - Bump PORTREVISION

Approved by:	garga (mentor, implicit)
7aa4c7ab5c
Florent Thoumie (flz) · 4.2.7_1
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/. - Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}. - Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
d4f0d0048a
Mark Linimon (linimon) · 4.2.7
Maintainer is busy right now, and suggests that someone else might be better able to maintain these ports.  We hope to see him back again soon.

Hat:		portmgr
36b89175ea
Edwin Groothuis (edwin) · 4.2.7
Remove USE_REINPLACE for categories starting with a G
ff21f59f9f
Edwin Groothuis (edwin) · 4.2.7
SHA256ify

Approved by:	krion@
c94783fe5c
Hiroki Sato (hrs) · 4.2.7
Revert the previous change since the problem of texi2html has been fixed.
2cf8ede2fa
Hiroki Sato (hrs) · 4.2.7
Unbreak the build.

Approved by:	Mark Huizer (xaa at timewasters dot nl) (maintainer)
33e15d970f
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 4.2.7
- Update to 4.2.7

PR:		ports/67092
Submitted by:	Mark Huizer <xaa+ports@timewasters.nl> (maintainer)
814d09112a
Trevor Johnson (trevor) · 4.2.6
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
8232e82f85
Edwin Groothuis (edwin) · 4.2.6
[PATCH] add xaw3d build option to games/xboard

this patch adds an option to build with Xaw3D

PR:		ports/44854
Submitted by:	Kyle Martin <mkm@ieee.org>
Approved by:	xaa+ports@timewasters.nl
9bf0f87f9f
Akinori MUSHA (knu) · 4.2.6
De-pkg-comment.
a8edaa568e
Patrick Li (pat) · 4.2.6
Update to 4.2.6

PR:		35052
Submitted by:	maintainer
e660ce5be0
Patrick Li (pat) · 4.2.5
Update to 4.2.5

PR:		33607
Submitted by:	maintainer
a8a63c86b4
Steve Price (steve) · 4.2.3
Update to version 4.2.3.

PR:		25384
Submitted by:	maintainer
1b70bb3067
Peter Pentchev (roam) · 4.2.2
Update to 4.2.2.

PR:		24996
Submitted by:	maintainer
ce1cd154c5
James E. Housley (jeh) · 4.2.1
changed download url, upgraded version

PR:		24846
Submitted by:	Mark Huizer; Eindhoven <xaa+ports@madison-gurkha.com> MAINTAINER
077add5f43
Maxim Sobolev (sobomax) · 4.2.0
Massive style enforcement - use ^I instead of spaces for variables identation.
2b1a883dc4
Alexander Langer (alex) · 4.2.0
Update to 4.2.0

PR:		23959
Submitted by:	Mark Huizer <xaa+ports@madison-gurkha.com> (maintainer)
e1fea419ac
Kevin Lo (kevlo) · 4.1.0
- Update to 4.1.0 - Change maintainer's e-mail address

PR: 21479
Submitted by: MAINTAINER
6988bd55ef
Satoshi Asami (asami) · 4.0.7
Convert to PORTNAME/PORTVERSION.  The following ports hand invalid version strings so I fixed them: quakeforge, netrek-BRMH, netrek-COW3, tetrinet-x and xnibbles.
2971a93e52
Chris D. Faulhaber (jedgar)
Update port to 4.0.7

PR:		17218
Submitted by:	Maintainer
11ce80ade4
Ade Lovett (ade)
Update to 4.0.5

PR:		15965
Submitted by:	Maintainer
c7a3be66fa
Chris Piazza (cpiazza)
Update to version 4.0.3

PR:		13460
Submitted by:	maintainer
c34df950d5
David E. O'Brien (obrien)
Change Id->FreeBSD.
253c66d044
Matthew Hunt (mph)
Upgrade to 4.0.2.

PR:		12051
Submitted by:	Mark Huizer <xaa@xaa.iae.nl>
6b9304f457
Michael Haro (mharo)
Remove the test to create ${PREFIX}/share/info/dir as it is now in bsd.port.mk and this helps to unify the check and install.
5ce8e8e5c7
Bill Fenner (fenner)
${MASTER_SITE_GNU} got rearranged in December; let's catch up.
5261958626
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Add USE_XLIB.
5805b60f1e
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Remove manpages defined in MAN? macros in games' Makefiles.
3fc5e40f2e
Steve Price (steve)
Update to version 4.0.0.

PR:		7161
Submitted by:	maintainer
6393807fde
Steve Price (steve)
Mark Murray says this can indeed be run without GnuChess present.
a2b7b4d732