* Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [991119 06:31]:
>
> First, is anyone getting this mail? I haven't seen any responses from
> anyone; not even to say, "Go away, you bother me." It's very discouraging.
> I'd appriciate verificatioin that this message actually got to the list.
>
> Second, I managed to track down the bug in ispell's lookup feature on
> RedHat 6.1. It was caused by a bad patch from RedHat making ispell look
> for grep in /usr/bin when, in fact, the grep-2.3-2 rpm puts it in /bin.
>
> Attached is a patch to ispell-3.1.20-jbj.patch which is included in the
> ispell-3.1.20-22 rpm.
>
> I'm kind of wondering why I'm the only complaining about this. Does
> everyone else have a symbolic link from /usr/bin/grep? Is ispell's lookup
> feature just not used much? It's very curious.
>
> Later,
>
> Michael Sterrett
> -Mr. Bones.-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --- ispell-3.1.20-jbj.patch.orig Mon Aug 30 14:47:40 1999
> +++ ispell-3.1.20-jbj.patch Fri Nov 19 01:20:41 1999
> @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@
> +#define DEFNOBACKUPFLAG 0
> +#define BAKEXT "~"
> +#define DEFTEXFLAG 1
> -+#define EGREPCMD "/usr/bin/grep -E"
> ++#define EGREPCMD "/bin/grep -E"
> +#define LOOK "/usr/bin/look -df"
> +#define MAKE_SORTTMP "-T ${TMPDIR-/var/tmp}"
> +#define SORTPERSONAL 2000
Suggest you file this problem as a Bugzilla report, at
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
and include your patch. From the amount of feedback
you got, I'd guess most folks don't use the lookup mode. I'll remember to
test it more thoroughly for the next release.
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Derek Tattersall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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