First of all, update sort(1) to most current version.
That should fix the sort(1) part of problem. The messages about
illegal affix flag seem to be problem of the input ispell
files, not anything NetBSD-specific.

Jaromir

Ruibiao Qiu wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I have the following problem building ispell on a 1.5R i386 box.
> Can somebody tell me what should I do?  Thanks
> 
> ...
> + munchlist -v -l ../english/english.aff /usr/share/dict/words
> english.0 english.1 american.0 am
> erican.1
> Collecting input.
> 
> Illegal affix flag character 'e'
> 
> Illegal affix flag character 'd'
> 
> Illegal affix flag character 'g'
> 
> Illegal affix flag character 'y'
> Finding flag marker.
> Generating roots and affixes.
> sort: record/field delimiter clash: Undefined error: 0
> Expanding dictionary into EXPANDEDPAIRS.
> Creating list of legal roots/flags.
> sort: record/field delimiter clash: Undefined error: 0
> Creating list of flags that participate in cross-products.
> Finding prefix and suffix flags.
> Creating awk script.
> Eliminating non-optimal affixes.
> sort: record/field delimiter clash: Undefined error: 0
> Generating output word list.
> sort: record/field delimiter clash: Undefined error: 0
> test -s english.med+  ||  (echo 'error: zero-length dictionary
> generated';  rm -f english.med+;
> exit 1)
> error: zero-length dictionary generated
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> ...
> 
> Ruibiao
> 
> 
> 


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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
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