On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 01:57:51PM +1000, Peter Drummond wrote:
> Dear Amir,
>
> thanks for your time. As I understand it, the empty brace after
> \begin{thebibliography}{} is the reason why reLyX crashes here.
>
> I therefore changed this to: \begin{thebibliography}{10}
>
> Everything worked fine. But why does it crash here with an
> empty brace, and not at your installation? Could it be that
> the perl is different? Or some libraries - obviously, these
> can be the source of many problems!
Well, I *am* using 5.004, but I don't really think that should be causing
the problem.
> I appreciate your help - it does seem that the bug is system-dependent,
> and perhaps our perl needs recompiling or updating. Or maybe we need
> to just switch to Linux completely, in order to make sure the system
> libraries are really compatible...
If you want to track this down, you'll need to actually get into the code
and see what's happening. I'm pretty sure I know what line the problem's
happening on, but you'd have to break it into pieces and you print
statements and stuff to see what was going on. I don't know if you have the
energy for that.
-Amir
