Subject: Problem building ispell
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Ruibiao Qiu <ruibiao@arl.wustl.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/19/2001 23:42:09
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