Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Re: New patch - feedback

[Jim C. <li...@yg...>]

Hi - This problem has been around for a while under OS X. I tried 
tracking down the cause a while back and didn't find anything obvious. 
I will be taking another look as soon as I get a chance.

Jim

On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 09:04 PM, Ted Stresen-Reuter wrote:

> Well, I tried the following ./configure followed by make test and it 
> terminated as shown below:
>
> ./configure \
> --enable-tests \
> --prefix=/Library/htdig-3.2 \
> --with-cgi-bin-dir=/Library/WebServer/Documents/CGI-Executables \
> --with-image-dir=/Library/WebServer/Documents/htdig/images \
> --with-search-dir=/Library/WebServer/Documents/htdig/search \
> --enable-static \
> --disable-shared
>
> [... lots os stuff ...]
> ld: Undefined symbols:
> WordType::instance
> make[2]: *** [testnet] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
>
> It didn't crash, that's for sure, but it does look like the make test 
> failed. I didn't try make install and actually running it yet, thought 
> I'd wait to hear back from the list.
>
> Ted
>
> On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 07:28  PM, Lachlan Andrew wrote:
>
>> Thanks for that, Ted. Yes, there is a small test suite.  You need to
>>   ./configure --enable-tests  --whatever-you-usually-use
>>   make check
>> The bug was that this used to crash on OS X.  Could you confirm that
>> your system crashes without the patch, like Jim's?  It would be great
>> if you could also just test it on whatever web site you happen to
>> have handy...
>>
>> I'm just testing a revised patch (attached), which reduces the
>> performance penalty on other systems.  On OS X, I expect it to crash
>> with a message asking you to add a parameter to the config file.  If
>> you make that change, then it should work OK.  For the test suite,
>> the config files are .../test/conf/htdig.{conf,conf2,conf3}.  Please
>> let me know how it behaves.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>> Lachlan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:52, Ted Stresen-Reuter wrote:
>>> worked like a charm... everything seems to work perfectly... do we
>>> have a test suite? is there a specific bug we are looking to squash
>>> with this patch? if so, how can i reproduce it?
>>
>> <dbase.patch3>
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