Re: xjdic22 problems

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> "Craig" == C Oda <craig@example.com> writes:

    Craig> I'm having problems with xjdic version 2.2

    Craig> I'm running Linux kernel 2.0.7 and gcc 2.7.2

It would be useful in cases like this to know your library revisions;
the libX11 and libc revisions would be sufficient.

    Craig> I have xjdxgen and xjdic22sa in usr/local/bin I have placed
    Craig> the edict and kanjidic files in /usr/local/edict:

Should be OK.

    Craig> [root@example.com /root]# xjdxgen /usr/local/edict/edict
    Craig> XJDXGEN V2.2 Index Table Generator for XJDIC.
    Craig> Copyright J.W. Breen, 1996
    Craig> Commandline request to use files /usr/local/edict/edict and
    Craig> /usr/local/edict/edict.xjdx

This looks like normal output; it probably has nothing to do with the
SIGSEGV.

    Craig> Segmentation fault (core dumped) [root@example.com /root]#

I've been getting lots of SIGSEGVs since I installed Moo-Tiff (the
August 1995 version) and XFree86 3.1.2.  Recompiling the programs
makes the SIGSEGVs go away.  Also, if you are actually getting core
dumps, you can run gdb on the core file to find out where it faulted.
(I don't know the syntax, sorry.)  That should tell you whether it's
an X function or a libc function or a user function.

    Craig> Without the index tables I can't use other programs like
    Craig> tkdict.  Any ideas?

Recompile the program on your own machine instead of using canned
binaries; I've also gotten SIGSEGVs from programs that had problems
with mismatches between pre-2.0 versions of file routines (especially
file locking, which was apparently badly broken pre-2.0).

Right now I think there are a lot of incompatibilities with pre-2.0
libraries and so on; I think there will probably be a fair number of
gotchas in prebuilt binaries for a few months until people start
rebuilding everything for ELF/2.0.x kernels and libc 5.2+.x and
X11R6/Xfree86 3.1.2+ and so on.

Steve

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