Ruibiao Qiu writes:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Mark White wrote:
> >These problems look like they're to do with sort -- when did
> >you last rebuild userland?  (There were some problems with
> >sort crashing during ispell builds, a few weeks ago, but
> >this looks like a slightly different problem)
> 
> My last "make build" is on Feb 7.  So are most of my /usr/bin/* (including
> sort).  So, should I just rebuild sort after an update?

Hmm, yes, try that.  I can build ispell without any problem
here; my last userland build was Feb 20 (version info
below).  There haven't been any relevant updates to ispell
recently AFAIK.

Mark <><

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[BSDln:p2]~% ident `which sort`                                          [1014]
/usr/bin/sort:
     $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.10 2000/06/14 06:48:59 cgd Exp $
     $NetBSD: append.c,v 1.8 2001/01/11 14:05:24 jdolecek Exp $
     $NetBSD: fields.c,v 1.9 2001/02/19 19:52:27 jdolecek Exp $
     $NetBSD: files.c,v 1.15 2001/02/19 15:45:45 jdolecek Exp $
     $NetBSD: fsort.c,v 1.15 2001/02/19 19:39:53 jdolecek Exp $
     $NetBSD: init.c,v 1.3 2000/10/16 21:41:05 jdolecek Exp $
     $NetBSD: msort.c,v 1.8 2001/01/13 10:33:30 jdolecek Exp $
     $NetBSD: sort.c,v 1.23 2001/02/19 15:53:07 jdolecek Exp $
     $NetBSD: tmp.c,v 1.7 2001/02/19 15:45:45 jdolecek Exp $
[BSDln:p2]~% ident `which ispell`                                        [2045]
/usr/pkg/bin/ispell:
     $Id: term.c,v 1.48 1994/10/25 05:46:11 geoff Exp $
     $Id: ispell.c,v 1.133 1995/10/11 04:30:29 geoff Exp $
     $Id: version.h,v 1.44 1995/10/11 05:03:28 geoff Exp $
     $Id: correct.c,v 1.59 1995/08/05 23:19:43 geoff Exp $
     $Id: version.h,v 1.44 1995/10/11 05:03:28 geoff Exp $
     $Id: defmt.c,v 1.41 1995/08/05 23:19:47 geoff Exp $
     $Id: dump.c,v 1.14 1994/01/25 07:11:27 geoff Exp $
     $Id: good.c,v 1.43 1994/11/02 06:56:05 geoff Exp $
     $Id: lookup.c,v 1.42 1995/01/08 23:23:42 geoff Exp $
     $Id: hash.c,v 1.20 1994/01/25 07:11:34 geoff Exp $
     $Id: makedent.c,v 1.45 1994/12/27 23:08:52 geoff Exp $
     $Id: tgood.c,v 1.32 1994/11/02 06:56:16 geoff Exp $
     $Id: tree.c,v 1.56 1995/01/08 23:23:49 geoff Exp $
     $Id: xgets.c,v 1.22 1994/09/16 04:48:34 geoff Exp $
     $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.10 2000/06/14 06:48:59 cgd Exp $
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