Re: [vile] strange 9.7 vile behavior under FreeBSD

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:39:35 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 
[snip - problem under FreeBSD with vile-9.7 when iconv is not enabled]

> Revisiting this - as exactly as I can with my 6.0 FreeBSD, I'm still
> not seeing a problem.  I set the locale the same, and am indeed linking
> to iconv (different versions of course):
> 
> ../bin/vile:
>          libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28122000)
>          libncurses.so.6 => /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x2820f000)
>          libperl.so => /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/mach/CORE/libperl.so 
> (0x2824e0>
>          libm.so.4 => /lib/libm.so.4 (0x28350000)
>          libcrypt.so.3 => /lib/libcrypt.so.3 (0x28366000)
>          libutil.so.5 => /lib/libutil.so.5 (0x2837e000)
>          libpthread.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 (0x2838a000)
>          libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x283af000)
> 
> I didn't see anything useful in my log-comments for eightbit.c, but
> as I mentioned, I seem to recall fixing during development some issue
> that would cause vile to ignore input.  That's a thousand lines of
> code though (I don't recall whether it was sign-extension or checking
> return-values from iconv).
> 

It may very well be a) something specific to 8-current or b) a side-
effect of some other port which I have installed.  The way in which
port dependencies interact is pretty much impossible to analyze.  And
since I only have 8-current installed I can't evaluate it any better.

OBTW the problem disappears for me too when I link against iconv.  I
only see a problem w/o iconv but with i18n support.  It also works
when I turn off both iconv and i18n support, which is the configuration
I'm currently using.

Thanks for pursuing this.

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Gary Jennejohn