SORRY! I have found v.2, no problems on Linux, try HP tomorrow at work. Best regards, Jan Jan Eggert Kofoed wrote: > I am sorry for bothering you, but now I see that my version 1.22 is too old, > since it has been reported that 1.22q fixes the HP-UX problem with > core-dump. Should I get version 2.0? Where do I get it? > > Best regards > Jan > > Jan Eggert Kofoed wrote: > > > First of all I want to express gratitude and admiration for those > > indivuduals making it possible for us to have available so much free > > software of high quality. I receive a lot more than I give, but when I > > stumble over findings I want to put them to your attention. I am willing > > to investigate any modification you suggest on the > > platforms/configurations I have access to in order to test solutions you > > may suggest. > > > > I have downloaded the textutils package with time stamps around 19990127 > > because I needed md5sum to run on HP workstations. Exeuting configure > > and make made the programs of the package readily available, and md5sum > > ran as expected when I was creating the digital signatures for the > > files. Simple tests gave the same results as other version of program > > (Linux, Cygnus on NT and Windows 95 platforms). There was only one > > problem: using the -c option for checing of the signatures caused > > segmentation violation. The problem was found to be attributable to the > > fact that 'getline' was not made part of the library (forgot the name). > > There were no problems during linking of the programs. Using a debugger > > I saw that getline returned without reading anything, and subsequently > > the code failed (free on memory not allocated, I think). Modification of > > the generated Makefile by adding ../lib/getline.c mended the situation > > perfectly. This was tested on HP-UX 10.10 and 10.20, with some old C > > compilers. > > > > I also tested the package extraction and installation on Linux. Here > > compilation failed on tr: > > gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. > > -I../lib -I../intl -g -O2 -c tr.c > > tr.c:234: macro `stpcpy' used without args > > make[2]: *** [tr.o] Error 1 > > > > Removing the forward-declaration made the program compile, and > > tests/tr-tests made no complaints. > > > > I have gained what I need from the download (md5sum on HP-UX), but the > > information above is supplied to you in the case you find it helpfull. > > Please let me know, if I can help you further in investigation of the > > problem, if you deem it beneficial. > > > > Best regards > > Jan Eggert Kofoed _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
