First, is anyone getting this mail? I haven't seen any responses from
anyone; not even to say, "Go away, you bother me." It's very discouraging.
I'd appriciate verificatioin that this message actually got to the list.
Second, I managed to track down the bug in ispell's lookup feature on
RedHat 6.1. It was caused by a bad patch from RedHat making ispell look
for grep in /usr/bin when, in fact, the grep-2.3-2 rpm puts it in /bin.
Attached is a patch to ispell-3.1.20-jbj.patch which is included in the
ispell-3.1.20-22 rpm.
I'm kind of wondering why I'm the only complaining about this. Does
everyone else have a symbolic link from /usr/bin/grep? Is ispell's lookup
feature just not used much? It's very curious.
Later,
Michael Sterrett
-Mr. Bones.-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- ispell-3.1.20-jbj.patch.orig Mon Aug 30 14:47:40 1999
+++ ispell-3.1.20-jbj.patch Fri Nov 19 01:20:41 1999
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@
+#define DEFNOBACKUPFLAG 0
+#define BAKEXT "~"
+#define DEFTEXFLAG 1
-+#define EGREPCMD "/usr/bin/grep -E"
++#define EGREPCMD "/bin/grep -E"
+#define LOOK "/usr/bin/look -df"
+#define MAKE_SORTTMP "-T ${TMPDIR-/var/tmp}"
+#define SORTPERSONAL 2000
