Re: Urgent: Balsa crashes on send - one reason found

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

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Hi Helmut,

On 11/27/2017 06:33:26 AM Mon, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 11/27/2017 03:15:18 AM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
…
> > 1. Master has been patched to cope with a situation where no spell-checker dictionary is found.
> >
> > 2. One reason that Balsa finds no dictionaries when built with enchant-1.6.1 seems to be that it looks for 
> > myspell/*.dic in /usr/share/myspell/dicts, while earler versions expected them to be in /usr/share/myspell/ 
> > (or at least that's where hunspell-en-0.20140811.1-9.fc27.noarch installs them).
> >
> > 3. Even with the patch to master, and with a symlink "sudo ln -s /usr/share/myspell/ 
> > /usr/share/myspell/dicts" to make the dictionaries visible to enchant-1.61, I *still* get a SEGV when opening a 
> > compose window. The attached program should reproduce the crash, but, when I test it, it does some of the time and not 
> > others. So I'm quite mystified by the issue :-(
>
>
> Here (on Gentoo)
> the current version of Balsa (GIT from today) still segfaults with enchant=1.61. (In the composition window, 
> 'Spelling' didn't show any languages)

Thanks for testing! And for confirming that Balsa does not work with enchant-1.6.1. Sadly, I still don't know 
why :-(

> I've tried your test program. Here are the outputs:
>
> --- with enchant 1.6.0 ---
> tag "de", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "de_AT", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "de_CH", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "de_DE", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "en", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "en_AU", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "en_CA", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "en_GB", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "en_US", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "fr", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "fr_CH", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "fr_FR", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "en_ZA", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "nl_NL", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "it_IT", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
>
>
> -- with enchant 1.6.1 ---
> tag "de", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "it_IT", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "de_AT", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "en_US", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "fr_CH", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "en", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "en_CA", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "fr", provider "aspell", desc "Aspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so"
> tag "nl_NL", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "en_GB", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "fr_FR", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "de_DE", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "de_CH", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "en_ZA", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"
> tag "en_AU", provider "myspell", desc "Myspell Provider", file "/usr/lib64/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so"

It's odd that the lists are different, but I don't know what to learn from that!

Again, thanks for testing!

Peter
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