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

[Ted Stresen-R. <ted...@ma...>]

Hi again,

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 06:26  AM, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

>> Lachlan: was this the error I was supposed to get?
>
> Umm... No.  The problem that I was trying to fix was one that Jim
> reported, so he is the expert.  However, I got the impression that he
> got it to run, but then it crashed or aborted at some point.  I was
> expecting my patch to abort at the same point, with a more useful
> error message.

Hmm... well, ok. Let me know if there is something specific you need me 
to try. Unfortunately, my time is very limited so debugging is almost 
out of the question, but running a test here and there is not a problem.
>
> I've now got an account on the compile farm, and I'm trying to get it
> to link properly...

I suspect the version of libtool is the problem too. The reason I 
suspect this is that in conversations with the author of libjpeg, I 
found similar issues in his conf files as well. I was able to get the 
library to compile by manually editing the conf files, but that's not 
the way to do it. He pointed out that they were generated with a really 
old version of libtool and that a newer version would probably solve 
the problem.
>
> It's good working with you :)
>
Same here. I actually feel a little bad that I haven't been able to 
complete the work I was doing on splitting attrs.html but I just 
haven't had the time (a couple of uninterrupted days with nothing more 
urgent to work on) so this is one way I can lend a hand.

On another note, I went to a WebObjects user group meeting last night 
and learned of a very intriguing future for Mac OS X. Imagine embedding 
Safari (or just the html rendering engine) inside other applications: 
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/

I am considering putting a GUI on htdig for use as a personal search 
engine (to index and find documents on a user's workstation) rendering 
the results with the Safari rendering engine (KHTML). That way, no web 
server is needed. We'll see if that ever goes anywhere...

Ted Stresen-Reuter