991278 - bundled hunspell fails to open dic file while --enable-system-hunspell works

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Landry Breuil (:gaston)]

Independant from the directory search path issue i just filed in #991253, the bundled hunspell fails for me on any word, marking them all as wrong. After adding some defines/debugs to spellchecker (basically, turning on HUNSPELL_WARNING, DEBUG_SPELLCHECKER, DEBUG_bsmedberg and DEBUG_INLINESPELL), it loads the .aff files fine (ie says "Adding dictionary:en-US") but later on fails on the dic file and spits "error: empty dic file" from http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/extensions/spellcheck/hunspell/src/hashmgr.cpp#421. I see all words/dom strings being passed to hunspell, but since it failed to open/find the actual dic, all words are considered as wrong.

Looking with strace/ktrace, it seems ffx doesnt even try to open the .dic file, only the .aff file is opened.

Interestingly, if i build with a systemwide hunspell 1.3.2 using --enable-system-hunspell, spellchecker works (ie doesnt underline _all_ words in red like the bundled hunspell does)

Guess i'll have to add some debug printfs to understand why the bundled hunspell chokes.

Comment 1

[(no longer active)]

Where did you get the .dic file from?

Comment 2

[Landry Breuil (:gaston)]

It behaves the same with the en-US dict bundled within ffx or the mozilla-dicts packages extracted from the xpis on AMO - the same dicts work with system-hunspell.

Comment 4

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

In general the spell checker seems to work, but if you still see a problem please re-open or file a new bug.

Thank you for your support!