Subject: Re: abiword 0.9.1 and latest cvs broken on alpha
From: Dom Lachowicz (dominicl@seas.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 15:24:34 CDT
Quoting Henry House <hajhouse@houseag.com>:
> I've dowloaded and compiled the unannounced 0.9.1 release from
> sourceforge and
> also the latest from cvs yesterday. Both compile fine on my Debian
> Alpha/Linux
> system (gcc version 2.95.4 20010506, libc6.1 version 2.2.3) but fail to
> work:
>
> $ /usr/local/bin/AbiWord
>
> **** (1) Assert ****
> **** (1) m_parserState.m_szSelectedSchemeName at xap_Prefs.cpp:980 ****
> **** (1) Continue ? (y/n) [y] : n
> /usr/local/bin/AbiWord: line 68: 24097 Aborted
> $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d "$@"
> romana:~/prog/office/abi/cvs/abi$ /usr/local/bin/AbiWord
>
> **** (1) Assert ****
> **** (1) m_parserState.m_szSelectedSchemeName at xap_Prefs.cpp:980 ****
> **** (1) Continue ? (y/n) [y] : y
> /usr/local/bin/AbiWord: line 68: 24109 Segmentation fault
> $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d "$@"
>
> This error from the cvs version, but 0.9.1 failed in a nearly identical
> way.
> Is anyone else using Abiword on alphas?
Hi Henry,
I don't personally know of anyone else running Abi on Alpha. But this doesn't
look like an "alpha" problem to me, but rather an XML parser problem. I'm
willing to bet you a nickel that you've compiled and linked against libxml2
instead of expat. There was a patch sent a few days ago which supposedly fixes
the libxml2 support in our preferences parser, but the patch didn't apply for
me so I never committed it.
So, my suggestion to you would be to recompile and relink Abi against expat
(cvs co expat) which may or may not require you specifically specifying that
you want to use expat (via a configure --enable option). I'll bug someone to
fix the libxml2 support sometime soon, but it's not a high priority of mine.
Hope that this helps some,
Dom
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