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#! rnews 2572 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.interpac.be!usenet From: Jean-Pierre Morant <jpm@marben.be> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Excite + 2.1.0 = ??? Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 09:13:20 +0200 Organization: Marben SA-NV Lines: 68 Message-ID: <31886090.59E2@marben.be> References: <31837E17.77F8@dev-null.com> <4m2ljp$619@white.dogwood.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.78.27.10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Dave Cornejo wrote: > > In article <31837E17.77F8@dev-null.com>, > Jim O'Quinn <oquinn@dev-null.com> wrote: > >Hello-- > > > >Tried to install the Excite search engine on my 2.1.0-R machine and > >got the following: > > > ># ./install-Architext > >Starting installation. This may take a few seconds... > >Bus error - core dumped > > > >Didn't expect it to work 'cuz Excite is only supposed to > >work on BSDI..... > > > >Any ideas or thoughts? > > I was trying this on a NetBSD system recently, I suspect the same > procedure may work for FreeBSD. > > The problem is that the distribution includes a dynamically linked > copy of perl 4.036. Every other program in the distribution is > statically linked and works fine. What I did was to unpack the > distribution, replace the bad perl with a native version of 4.036, > adjust PackingList accordingly and then tar'ed and compressed it. You > then run install-Architext normally... > Unpacking 'Architext.tar'... OK Would be too simple... ;-) I've already tried that and here's the result : ... Error: /usr/local/etc/architext/architextSearch does not work. Contact Architext Support. Installation aborted ... Specifically : /usr/local/etc/architext/architextSearch Segmentation fault (core dumped) As one can see, things go "better" - the perl script executes... That's really too bad as the program seems just great ... Any idea ??? > -- > Dave Cornejo There is nothing so subtle > Dogwood Media as the obvious > Fremont, California -- Jean-Pierre Morant c/o MARBEN S.A./N.V. La vie serait tellement Boulevard du Souverain,400, Vorstlaan plus facile 1160 Bruxelles Si seulement Belgium nous avions les sources.... + 32 2 663 1130 (phone) + 32 2 663 1199 (fax) http://www.marben.be jpm@marben.be