On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 10:15:07PM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote: > I've been trying to use the ispell-british dictionaries but I've been > having problems (note that the default "english" dictionary works A-OK). > > I see similar reports for other dictionaries for various linux packages, > but I don't see any related to NetBSD or pkgsrc. > > I have a rather radical set of changes to the way the ispell > dictionaries are built and installed, and when I use my updated > makefiles then the resulting dictionary works A-OK > > I'm wondering if anyone can reproduce this with the standard packages, > and if so then perhaps my fixes would make for a good send-pr. > > $ DICTIONARY=british ispell quotes > Illegal format hash table /usr/pkg/lib/british.hash - expected magic2 0x9602, > got 0x0
Huh. Yep: slave:ksh$ ispell -d british blah.txt Illegal format hash table /usr/pkg/lib/british.hash - expected magic2 0x9602, got 0x0 slave:ksh$ file /usr/pkg/lib/*.hash /usr/pkg/lib/american.hash: symbolic link to americanmed+.hash /usr/pkg/lib/americanmed+.hash: little endian ispell 3.1 hash file, 7-bit, capitalization, 52 flags and 512 string characters /usr/pkg/lib/british.hash: little endian ispell 3.1 hash file, 7-bit, capitalization, 52 flags and 512 string characters /usr/pkg/lib/britishxlg.hash: little endian ispell 3.1 hash file, 7-bit, capitalization, 52 flags and 512 string characters /usr/pkg/lib/english.hash: symbolic link to americanmed+.hash slave:ksh$ uname -a NetBSD slave 9.1_STABLE NetBSD 9.1_STABLE (SLAVE) #6: Sun Jan 31 11:11:16 AEDT 2021 stix@slave:/home/netbsd/netbsd-9/obj.amd64/home/netbsd/netbsd-9/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/SLAVE amd64 Built locally from pkgsrc-2020Q4. Cheers, -- Paul Ripke "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- Disputed: Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. 1948.
