Subject: Re: Fwd: Bug#92559: abiword: Spell check underlines all words on PPC
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 16:34:15 CDT
Just a thought at this:
Endianness? PPC = BigE, Intel = LittleE. If we're trying to spell check
against a Little Endian hashfile, then this might explain it.
Dom
>From: Aaron Lehmann To: abiword-dev@abisource.com Subject: Fwd: Bug#92559:
>abiword: Spell check underlines all words on PPC Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001
>11:48:01 -0700
>
>Can someone check this out? I have shell access to a PPC if it will help.
>
>----- Forwarded message from Adam C Powell IV -----
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>From: Adam C Powell IV Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 08:25:28 -0400 To: Debian Bug
>Tracking System Subject: Bug#92559: abiword: Spell check underlines all
>words on PPC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.18pre21 ppc)
>
>Package: abiword Version: 0.7.13-0.2 Severity: normal
>
>Greetings,
>
>In abiword 0.7.13, every word is red-underlined by the spell checker on
>PPC. I'm not sure why this is, the dictionary hash file symlinks all work,
>and the version in potato did not have this problem. I will try to check
>the logic at some point, it's possible there's a signed char assumption
>somewhere causing this (PPC defaults to unsigned char).
>
>Also, because of those dictionary hash symlinks, it seems there should be a
>dependency on the virtual package ispell-dictionary...
>
>Thank you,
>
>-Adam P.
>
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>-- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version:
>Linux ebedmelech 2.2.18pre21 #1 Mon Nov 20 21:18:03 EST 2000 ppc unknown
>
>Versions of the packages abiword depends on: ii libc6 2.2.2-1 GNU C
>Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libexpat1 1.95.1-2 XML parsing C
>library - runtime library ii libglib1.2 1.2.9-1 The GLib library of C
>routines ii libgtk1.2 1.2.9-2 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X ii
>libpng2 1.0.8-1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.3-6 The GNU
>stdc++ library ii xlibs 4.0.2-11 X Window System client libraries ii zlib1g
>1.1.3-13 compression library - runtime
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