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Various problem with xconq


Hello, 
I just downloaded the 7.4.1 tarball, and I'm trying to compile it. Sadly, I
run in a lot of problems. And I also found problem reported in the Debian
bug tracking system I want to tell you.
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I can't manage to build the documentation in ps format. I noticed that the
kwic program generate a warning, telling "Symbol too long", so I though it
may be that, and changed 
#define SYMLEN 40
to 60, and the warning disapeared. I think it may be worth changing it in
the tarball, even if I'm not sure of the implications of this warning...

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But it did not do the trick:
TEXINPUTS=.:.:.:$TEXINPUTS tex ./xcdesign.texi
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
(./xcdesign.texi (./texinfo.tex Loading texinfo package [Version 1.1]: Basics,
fonts, page headings, tables, indexing, sectioning, toc printing,
environments, defuns, cross reference, and turning on texinfo input format.)
[1] [2] Chapter1 (./design.texi Chapter2 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]
[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]
[39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49]
Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again. [50] [51] [52] [53]
[54] [55] [56]) (./refman.texi Chapter3 [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63]
[64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78]
[79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93]
[94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106]
[107] [108] [109] [110] [111] [112] [113] [114] [115] [116] [117] [118]
[119] [120] [121]
! Still within an environment. Type Return to continue..
@ENVcheck ...nvironment. Type Return to continue.}
                                                   @endgroup @fi 
@node ->@ENVcheck 
                  @parsearg @nodezzz 
l.4493 @node
             Notices and Narratives
? 


Ohhh, well. What am I supposed to do now ?

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The info format does not perform better:
mquinson@blaise:~/src/XCONQ/xconq-7.4.1/doc$ LANG= make info
makeinfo -I . -o ./xcdesign.info  ./xcdesign.texi
./refman.texi:654: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:1930: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:4460: @end' expected example', but saw deffn'.
./refman.texi:4452: No matching @end example'.
./refman.texi:4445: No matching @end deffn'.
./refman.texi:4703: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:5090: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:5090: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:5352: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:5534: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:5619: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:5990: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:5990: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:6070: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:6075: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
./refman.texi:6080: warning: unlikely character , in @var.
makeinfo: Removing output file ./xcdesign.info' due to errors; use --force
to preserve.
make: *** [xcdesign.info] Error 2

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Beside of that, I noticed a whole bench of gcc warning like
oplayer.c:1129: warning: chance1' might be used uninitialized in this function 
don't you get afraid that the code may be wrong in these places ? It's just
a curiosity question, since did not dig in the code yet to see if these
warning are false positive, or if the variable is really used without
initialisation...
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I also noticed that the config.guess is of version "2000-05-30" and
config.sub of version "2000-06-10". That's kinda problematic for new
architectures (see http://bugs.debian.org/78672 for more details)
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I also found this patch in the Debian bug tracking system:
http://bugs.debian.org/107313
The author claims that without that, the patch is necessary to compile on
the GNU/Hurd architecture, but I've no way to figure out if that's true.
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Please also note that the page 
http://sources.redhat.com/xconq/lists.html
is wrong. It points to xconq7@sourceware.cygnus.com where it should be
xconq7@sources.redhat.com
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Last point, there is a major security issue in the parameter handeling. That
was reported on bugtraq more than one year ago, and a patch were contributed
a short while ago. See
http://bugs.debian.org/80576
for more details.


I really like this program, and I hope you will concider all the issues I
raised in this mail.

Thanks, Mt.


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