Subject: Re: PR: bin/12138 [Was: sort crashes]
To: Mark White <mark.white@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk>
From: Jaromír <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/19/2001 20:53:13
Mark White wrote:
> Just had another sort crash, apparently unrelated -- this
> time while trying to build pkgsrc/textproc/ispell with make
> british.

Please update sort and try again. You need rev. 1.9 of sort/fields.c,
other changes are cosmetic only.
That fix seems to work for me - at least it doesn't crash now,
I cannot confirm whether the output data are correct.

Unfortunately, it's not quite trivial to create a regression
test for bugs like this - it is Really Special Case (TM).

Jaromir
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