Greetings,
When I try to open a MSWord document that I have received, my non-product build of m94 presents a dialog box saying General Error. General input/output error. and it does not open the document. Hacking around with gdb, I see the program trying to open file:///home/terry/OOo_hacking/localbuild/OpenOffice/installed/install/en-US/openoffice.org/basis3.4/program/libraries/libmswordli.so which the program resolves as /home/terry/OOo_hacking/localbuild/OpenOffice/installed/install/en-US/openoffice.org/basis3.4/program/libraries/libmswordli.so which I lack. Indeed, I lack a file with that basename anywhere within localbuild/. Is there anything obvious that I could have done wrong in my configuration, build, or installation to cause this error? My build script issues export LOCALINSTALLDIR="/home/terry/OOo_hacking/localbuild" export PKGFORMAT="installed" before calling dmake, and I shall append a copy of my call to configure. Among the 244 hits (sheesh!) returned from a bug search for "general input/output error", I see issue 110030 <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=110030>. This differs from my situation in that its attached document is a .docx while my document is a .doc. However, I get very similar backtraces from trying to open the two files. Some questions arise. (Yes, I *do* have too much time on my hands. <grin />) (*) If the message points to a program problem rather than my own error, is issue 110030 the right place for me add a comment about the missing file? (*) The message "general input/output error" is unhelpfully, well, general. Would it be a good idea (and feasible?) to extend the error message in some way? (*) Would it be a good idea to make some calling functions raise assertions upon failure? What macros would be appropriate? The end result after the error message often seems to be the non-performance of what the user intended to do. This is more serious than the situations in which I have seen many assertions raised. (*) What can I do to identify the problematic files--mine and the one attached to issue 100030--more helpfully than merely .docx and .doc? Thanks, Terry. ===== start configuration parameters ============================== ./configure --disable-mozilla \ --with-system-stdlibs \ --with-system-zlib \ --with-system-openssl \ --with-system-jpeg \ --with-system-libwpd \ --with-system-python \ --with-system-db \ --with-system-libxslt \ --with-system-sane-header \ --with-system-xrender-headers \ --with-system-vigra \ --with-system-neon \ --without-fonts \ --disable-odk \ --without-myspell-dicts \ --enable-symbols \ --disable-strip-solver \ --with-system-curl \ --with-jdk-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun \ --with-use-shell=bash \ --enable-dbgutil \ --without-junit \ --disable-gstreamer ===== end configuration parameters ================================ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org