Subject: seg faults
From: Colin Mattoon (cjm2@lewiston.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 08:46:51 CST
A thought regarding the reports of seg faults using 0.7.8 on Corel and
Mandrake Linux distributions:
A quick look at some web sites show that these two distributions break
with the more common practice of maintaining compatibility with non
Pentium processors. While Caldera, Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Stormix and
SuSE remain (at least in theory) compatible with i386 hardware and 4 to 16
MB of installed ram, Corel and Mandrake include, in their published
hardware requirements, the requirement for Pentium processors and
additional ram.
As a non programmer, non expert, who has enjoyed success with Abiword
0.7.8 on Redhat 6.0 and Slackware 4.0, 7.0...using both the rpm and
tar packages on RedHat 6.0 and the tar packages on Slackware, I cannot
help but wonder if the seg faults reported on Corel and Mandrake are
specific to some sort of "Pentium Optomization" beyond mere recompilation
of the kernels.
Stormix is another Debian based distribution (claimed to be compatible
with lesser machines). If 0.7.8 runs on that platform (as well as
Debian) without seg faults, it would seem strong evidence that the problem
lies with the O.S. rather than with Abiword.
I guess this falls under the catagory of "my 2 cents worth." :-)
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