[KinoSearch] solaris

[meir]

Thanks a lot for the help.

I used the current 'dev' version.  It went throught the test
fine.  Next we'll index using our data.  That this got resolved
so fast is great.

I ran the sample 'c' program in http://xrl.us/bgpfe.

It worked in linux.
It blew up in solaris, as you predicted.

Any way of tricking KinoSearch to work in perl 5.6.1?

Thanks

Meir

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Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> 
> On Feb 24, 2008, at 10:31 AM, meir wrote:
> 
>> I have an extensive system in perl getting built on solaris sparc  and I
>> need a search engine and hoped to use KinoSearch.  This is for a
>> university project.
>>
>> I built KinoSearch-0.162 using gcc 3.4.6 and perl 5.8.8.
>> 'perl Build.PL' and 'perl Build' went well, but
>> I got many errors in the 'perl Build test' step.
> 
> 
> The pattern of errors is consistent with a failure somewhere during  
> indexing.  I can nearly duplicate your failure fingerprint by  inserting 
> a strategically positioned exit() call in the C code.
> 
> Since the failure is so graceless, it's probably a memory error of  some 
> sort.  I have a sneaking suspicion about what might be happening:  there 
> are places where KS is dereferencing U32* pointers which should  be 
> word-aligned but are not.
> 
> For an explanation of memory alignment, see these posts of mine to  Perl 
> 5 Porters:
> 
> http://xrl.us/bgpfe (Link to www.nntp.perl.org)
> http://xrl.us/bgpfc (Link to www.nntp.perl.org)
> 
> The first post has a sample app.  If you can compile it on your  Solaris 
> box, but it blows up when you try to run it, we have our  culprit.
> 
> The alignment issue has been fixed in the devel branch, and I know of  
> at least one other Solaris user who has been unable to use the maint  
> branch but is successfully using devel.  I suggest you try that.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Marvin Humphrey
> Rectangular Research
> http://www.rectangular.com/
> 
> 
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