[sylpheed:32406] Re: Build errors with gtkspell >= 2.0.12

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:08:38 +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, indeed that patch works (just tested), so, the only doubt I have
> is why hasn't Hiroyuki applied it.
> This is clearly an upstream patch, not distro-specific.

GtkSpell 2.0.11 was released on 2005-05-27. After that, the project
looked semi-dead until 2.0.12 (2008-05-09). Red Hat's/Fedora's patches
for Enchant were merged just recently in 2.0.13 (2008-05-20).