[sylpheed:32404] Re: Build errors with gtkspell >= 2.0.12

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 01:48:44 +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote:

> 
>   Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 18:06:05 +0200
> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> 
> > since gtkspell 2.0.12, the command
> > pkg-config --libs gtkspell-2.0
> > does not longer return the aspell library flags. This causes linker
> > errors when building sylpheed because it depends directly on aspell.
> 
>   Congratulations, you've been hit by Debian bug #482542 ;-)
>  
> > So, sylpheed's configure.in should explicitly check for aspell.h and
> > libaspell and add aspell's linker flags ("-laspell").
> 
>   Attached patch should fix configure.in for this, feel free to improve it.

Please don't. GtkSpell 2.0.13 drops support for aspell/pspell in favour of
Enchant as a wrapper for several spell checking backends. On 24 Dec 2007 I
posted a patch against Sylpheed 2.4.8 to make it use Enchant. This still
applies and is used for Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 development.

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