lastole@athena.mit.edu (Lars A Stole) (04/22/91)
I recently downloaded ispell from nova.cc.purdue.edu which contained the source and a binary for detex. Unfortunately, although ispell works fine, whenever I run detex I get a bus error followed by a core dump. Is there something peculiar about my machine setup that could be causing this problem, or have others had similar problems with detex? Is there a simple fix? Lars Stole MIT, Dept. of Economics
nevai@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) (04/25/91)
In article <1991Apr21.184321.26581@athena.mit.edu> lastole@athena.mit.edu (Lars A Stole) writes: >I recently downloaded ispell from nova.cc.purdue.edu which contained the >source and a binary for detex. Unfortunately, although ispell works fine, >whenever I run detex I get a bus error followed by a core dump. Is there >something peculiar about my machine setup that could be causing this >problem, or have others had similar problems with detex? I've got exactly the same problem!
simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) (04/25/91)
In article <1991Apr24.211421.19343@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: Path: zazen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!function.mps.ohio-state.edu!nevai From: nevai@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Date: 24 Apr 91 21:14:21 GMT References: <1991Apr21.184321.26581@athena.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Lines: 8 Nntp-Posting-Host: function.mps.ohio-state.edu In article <1991Apr21.184321.26581@athena.mit.edu> lastole@athena.mit.edu (Lars A Stole) writes: >I recently downloaded ispell from nova.cc.purdue.edu which contained the >source and a binary for detex. Unfortunately, although ispell works fine, >whenever I run detex I get a bus error followed by a core dump. Is there >something peculiar about my machine setup that could be causing this >problem, or have others had similar problems with detex? I've got exactly the same problem! The problem is that detex needs to be compiled with the c compiler option -fwritable-strings I will repost ispell right now. Let me know if you have any problems say after April 26. The new version should be there by then. -- =============================================================================== Internet: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu Othernet: simmons@hoofers.lake.mendota --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- According to the HitchHikers guide to the galaxy, the one thing we *cannot* afford to have is a sense of perspective. ===============================================================================
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (04/25/91)
In article <SIMMONS.91Apr24215329@rigel.neep.wisc.edu> simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) writes: >The problem is that detex needs to be compiled with the c compiler option > -fwritable-strings Ick, barf. Fix the code!!! -=EPS=- -- Changing constants at runtime should have died with FORTRASH 66.
simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) (04/26/91)
In article <1517@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: Path: zazen!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Date: 25 Apr 91 10:12:40 GMT References: <1991Apr21.184321.26581@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr24.211421.19343@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <SIMMONS.91Apr24215329@rigel.neep.wisc.edu> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 10 In article <SIMMONS.91Apr24215329@rigel.neep.wisc.edu> simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) writes: >The problem is that detex needs to be compiled with the c compiler option > -fwritable-strings Ick, barf. Fix the code!!! -=EPS=- -- Changing constants at runtime should have died with FORTRASH 66. I agree, but i didn't write the code. -- =============================================================================== Internet: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu Othernet: simmons@hoofers.lake.mendota --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- According to the HitchHikers guide to the galaxy, the one thing we *cannot* afford to have is a sense of perspective. ===============================================================================
paul@aqua.ccit.arizona.edu (Paul Sanchez) (04/26/91)
i think i'm the one who triggered this whole detex thread. i finally got everything working, thanks to kim and robert olson <olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu>. as has been noted, detex needs to be compiled with -fwritable-strings to work on the next. ispell compiles fine from the distribution placed on sonata. i still was having trouble getting ispell/detex to work in emacs. what finally fixed it for me was removing the line "(setq process-connection-type nil)" from my .emacs initialization. this had worked its way in on another system, and screws things up (at least for me) on the next. thanks again to everyone who helped. --paul