Re: AbiSource, Ispell, Aspell and beyond...


Subject: Re: AbiSource, Ispell, Aspell and beyond...
From: Darren O. Benham (gecko@benham.net)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 02:59:59 CST


Personal opinion... you'd be better off pointing abiword at a ispell
dictionary generated by someone on the arch.. for example, there are ispell
dictionaries available for the Debian distro.

On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 02:40:42AM -0500, abnay@altavista.net wrote:
> Darren O. Benham wrote:
>
> > Abiword ships with it's own ispell dictionary.
> > That ispell dictionary is made on an i386 arch.
> > That makes the endianess an issue.
>
> Aha.. Could that be the reason of the dictionary
> loading problem I see on my Linux/Alpha box? I spent
> the whole night debugging code in lookup.c oblivious
> of this :-( I wonder if the data size differences are the responsible for the read beyond the EOF. All I see
> is junk in the dent structures in hashtbl.
>
> If so, shouldn't the hash table be rebuilt for a
> non-32-bit (read 64-bit) architecture (and hence be
> part of the build process)? How can I do
> re-build the hash table?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bharadwaj
>
>
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