On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 11:06:26PM +0000, David Coe wrote: > > [ispell dependency problems] > The problem here is that ispell, and most (all > but the above four) of the ispell dictionaries, > have "Architecture: i386". > > I suspect that the ispell dictionaries are not > (should not be) architecture-specific, and that > should be very easy to fix. But how can I > determine whether ispell is i386-specific? (In > theory it should not be.) Should I just upload > one with "Architecture: All" and see what fails? > > Is there advice somewhere for converting old > i386 packages to All?
The ispell dictionaries are stored in a binary, hashed format for fast lookup, and so they very well may have architecture dependencies (e.g., endianness). They are in /usr/lib/ispell (not /usr/share/ispell), probably for that reason. file(1) seems to know about them: americanmed+.hash: little endian ispell 3.1 hash file, 8-bit, capitalization, 52 flags and 100 string characters -- - Matt
