93893 - Spellcheck crash in 0.9.3

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P2)

Description

[Francois Swanepoel]

Removed Mozilla 0.9.2 from system
Installed mozilla 0.9.3. (mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.3-sea.tar.gz)
Opened browser to file://path-to-NS6.1/xpi/spellchecker.xpi
This installed the spellchecker succefully:
From install.log
file:///mnt/shared/browsers/netscape6/netscape-installer/xpi/spellchecker.xpi  -
-  08/06/2001 13:50:31
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     Netscape Spell Checker
     ----------------------

     ** initInstall: 0
     ** communicatorFolder: /usr/local/mozilla/
     ** addDirectory() returned: 0
     [1/4]      Create Folder: /usr/local/mozilla/components/spellchecker
     [2/4]      Installing: /usr/local/mozilla/components/spellchecker/pen4s324.
dat
     [3/4]      Installing: /usr/local/mozilla/components/spellchecker/netscape.
dic
     [4/4]      Installing: /usr/local/mozilla/components/spellchecker/libspellc
hk.so

     Install completed successfully
     ** performInstall() returned: 0
     Finished Installation  08/06/2001 13:50:32


When running the spell checker mozilla crash with the following error:
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
/usr/local/mozilla/components/spellchecker/libspellchk.so: undefined symbol:
StartAssignmentByValue__14nsXPIDLCString


This worked in 0.9.2

Thanks for your attention
Regards 
Francois

Comment 1

[Con Kolivas]

Have a look at bug 56301
I don't think the netscape spell checker xpi works any more. A different spell
checker is being considered for mozilla (open sourced).

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to editor who own the spellcheck

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

assigning t kin to confirm crash

Comment 4

[kinmoz]

Looks like a link problem.

Comment 5

[Kathleen :Brade]

I wonder if the Netscape6.1 product had some string changes that aren't in 
mozilla 0.9.3 (or vice versa).

Comment 6

[kinmoz]

-> 0.9.5

FYI, this does not happen in Netscape Commercial builds based on the TRUNK. I
think brade may be correct. There might be some xpcom/string changes in 0.9.3
that aren't in the libraries used for Netscape 6.1.

Comment 7

[Gael Le Mignot]

Ispell backend?
I know there are some licensing problems with spell checkers & Mozilla. Why not
using ispell on Unix systems? Doing execvp() on ispell won't break any license,
and will provide easy spell checking, and with a common dictionnary shared by
many other programs.

Comment 8

[kinmoz]

Marking this WONTFIX, since at the moment we aren't making any guarantees about 
backward compatibility with libraries from previous versions.

Comment 9

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified so