Re: Bug#58358: aspell on PowerPC (Was: Release-critical Bugreport for February 18, 2000

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@netscape.com>]

"C.M. Connelly" proclaimed:
> Nope, aspell 0.29.1 shows the same behavior.  If, however, you
> apply this patch:
> 
> --- aspell-.29.1/src/aspell.cc-original Wed Feb 23 18:38:47 2000
> +++ aspell-.29.1/src/aspell.cc  Wed Feb 23 18:28:28 2000
> @@ -665,9 +665,9 @@
>             << "\" for reading.\n";
>        exit(-1);
>      }
> -    char c;
> +    int c;
>      while ((c = FILE.get()) != EOF) {
> -      file += c;
> +      file += (char) c;
>      }
>    }


I have applied the patch and uploaded 0.29.1-1 to Incoming just moments
ago.  Could some powerpc folks try compiling for powerpc and running it? 
Please let me know whether it runs fine.

If it does, I'd like to close this bug.

Thanks to everyone on helping me isolate and fix this bug.

Thaths
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