According to Joe R. Jah: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > endings and synonyms are generated a bit differently, and most importantly > > are built in a temporary spot then moved into place, so they don't collide > > with any existing databases until the new one is complete. soundex and > > accents use the same code as metaphone for writing the database from the > > generated word list, so they'd all potentially have the same problem. > > The scrambling of data may not have been bad enough to cause a segfault > > (yet) but may have led to corrupt databases. If you had existing > > databases for accents and/or soundex in place, built by 3.1.x, before > > regenerating them for 3.2.0b5, you should remove them and try again, > > just as for metaphone. > > Thanks; I see. It'd be nice if it could be made to quit, spitting a > warning, instead of dumping core.
Better still, it should probably truncate or unlink an existing database before proceeding, especially if there's a version number mismatch. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ ht://Dig Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev