#2 Fixed: Gnome version will not build

[Kyle Ferrio]

I tried building the Gnome version from the source rpm.
No joy. The create_data perl script complains about a
verb which does not make sense, and then exits:

Mmm, this record is wrong ...
[teir-8>dos_part=teido|tinto<1FUTs:ti-e-re;1PASs:ti-e-ra;
1PASsB:ti-e-se;1PRE:ti-o;1PREs:ti-a;2FUTs:ti-e-res;2IMP:ti
-e;2PASs:ti-e-ras;2PASsB:ti-e-ses;2PRE:ti-es;2PREs:ti-as;
3FUTs:ti-e-re;3IMP:ti-a;3PAS:ti-;3PASs:ti-e-ra;3PASsB:ti-
e-se;3PRE:ti-e;3PREs:ti-a;4FUTs:ti-�re-mos;4IMP:ti-a-
mos;4PASs:ti-�ra-mos;4PASsB:ti-�se-mos;4PREs:ti-a-mos;
5FUTs:ti-e-reis;5PASs:ti-e-rais;5PASsB:ti-e-seis;5PREs:ti
-�s;6FUTs:ti-e-ren;6IMP:ti-an;6PAS:ti-e-ron;6PASs:ti-e-
ran;6PASsB:ti-e-sen;6PRE:ti-en;6PREs:ti-an;INF:te-ir;gerundio:ti-en-do;participio:tinto;participiocomp:teido;]
make[2]: *** [compjugador.gdbm] Error 25

Oddly, the text "teir" does not seem to appear in any
of the verb textfiles. I am going to go back and try
to build from the tarball, in case its different from
the tarball in the src rpm.

Mandrake 9.1
gcc 3.2.2
gdbm2
./configure --with-gnome=/usr

[Kyle Ferrio]

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I tried building from the plain 0.3 tarball. The
create_data script still dies in the same way. But this
time I actually found the 'teir' verb in ver.con.txt. (I
guess my text-viewer was having some problems with escapes.)
Bottom line: it still does not build. The perl script
appears to be unable to parse its own data. I'm running
perl 5.8.0.

[Kyle Ferrio]

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Update: I still don't have a build, but I'm learning some
things. The focus here is on the perl script create_data
which parses the ver*.txt files to create the database.

(1) During the parsing of ver.con.txt, the script bombs out
on the infinitive te~nir. (In the file, it's an en-neh, but
I'm writing it as a digraph in case SourceForge can't render
it.) Commenting that verb out at least allows the
processing of ver.con.txt to finish. Note that te~nir is
not the first occurance of en-neh in that file. For
example, so~nar.

(2) With te~nir commented out, processing procedes to
ver.fam.txt. Here, perl complains three times about
malformed UTF-8 characters before bombing. Interestingly,
the three lines it complains about are the first three lines
containing en-neh.

(3) I'm clueless about UTF-8. My guess is that my system is
somehow mis-configured. Maybe I need to recompile perl with
better support for internationalization. Any pointers will
be greatly appreciated.

(4) Mandrake 9.1
Perl 5.8.0
gcc 3.2.2
gdbm2

[Kyle Ferrio]

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Yep. Commenting out the ~n verbs helps. Perl also
complains about the arg''uir, so it seems that my build of
perl does not like this. I feel like I'm getting close...

[Kyle Ferrio]

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Warning! Be sure your editor supports the extended Latin
character set before editing create_data. NEdit does.
Emacs is probably fine, of course. My installed vi(m) does
not, and that was a source of some wasted time! Ditto for
the KDE gui editors I tried.

Early on in create_data.pl, perl 5.8 (and perhaps as far
back as 5.6?) needs to see this:

require Encode;

Then, after each line is read in, you'll need

Encode::_utf8_off($_);

Presumably man perlutf is of some help here...

By the way, the instructions in the INSTALL file are a
little out of sync. As built, the test program will fail
unless you give it the full path of the database, which is
built in the data directory.

Finally, this onty resolves the build problem. It still
segfaults on many verbs, including but not limited to

leer, creer, venir, decir, seguir.

Some verbs are just plain wrong:
estar gives yo esto
ser gives yo so
dar gives yo do... you get the idea.

Finally, dar and ser are the only two verbsI've noticed with
conjugations for vosotros. Most of the verbs I've tried
just have a blank there.