[sylpheed:31666] Re: aspell errors on compiling 2.4.5

[Bob White]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:40:20 +0100
Geoff <capsthorne at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have just changed distros to Arch Linux and decided to
> install a number of its maintained packages rather than do
> everything myself.  Those packages do not include sylpheed,
> but aspell-0.60.5 and gtkspell-2.0.11-2 are available, so I
> installed those (I checked that the header files are
> installed too).
> 
> Compilation of sylpheed-2.4.5 now aborts with the output
> quoted below:
> 
> compose.o: In function `compose_set_spell_lang_menu':
> /myfiles/source/sylpheed-2.4.5/src/compose.c:5216:undefined
> reference to`new_aspell_config' 
> /myfiles/source/sylpheed-2.4.5/src/compose.c:5217:undefined
> reference to`get_aspell_dict_info_list' 
> /myfiles/source/sylpheed-2.4.5/src/compose.c:5218:undefined
> reference to `delete_aspell_config' 
> /myfiles/source/sylpheed-2.4.5/src/compose.c:5220:undefined
> reference to `aspell_dict_info_list_elements' 
> /myfiles/source/sylpheed-2.4.5/src/compose.c:5221:
> undefined reference to`aspell_dict_info_enumeration_next' 
> /myfiles/source/sylpheed-2.4.5/src/compose.c:5221:
> undefined reference to`aspell_dict_info_enumeration_next'
>  /myfiles/source/sylpheed-2.4.5/src/compose.c:5227:undefined
> reference to `delete_aspell_dict_info_enumeration' 
> collect2: ld returned1 exit status 
> make[3]: *** [sylpheed] Error 1 
> make[3]:Leaving
> directory`/myfiles/source/sylpheed-2.4.5/src' make[2]: ***
> [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> I could uninstall the supplied aspell/gtkspell and compile
> my own as I used to - but I am curious as to why this
> should be happening.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Geoff


Hi Geoff,

The development packages have the header files needed for compiling.
The undefined's seem to indicate that the aspell development package
was not installed.  

Bob W.