[Geany-devel] Spell check plugin

[Lex Trotman]

2011/1/21 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:56:11 +1100, Lex wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
>>>>>> Does anyone know why spellcheck plugin won't configure against
>>>>>> 0.20 (using latest plugins SVN and Debian 0.20 Geany)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Was compiling against 0.19 ok, what dependency has changed, I
>>>>>> can't see anything in README?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Can you copy in the output? Where it's failing?
>>>> Hi Frank,
>>>>
>>>> Its failing the check for enchant >= 1.3
>>>>
>>>> I had enchant 1.6 installed but not enchant-dev, with enchant-dev
>>>> installed it passes.
>>>>
>>>> But for some reason I don't understand 0.19 was working without the
>>>> dev package?
>>>
>>> I'm remembering there was something with gtkspell/enchant some time
>>> ago. Maybe a late impact of this. But this was a long, long time
>>> ago. Enrico might can tell more about here.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Frank
>>>
>>
>>Ok, since it is now working for me I'm just wanting to make sure that
>
> I have no idea why you could compile the plugin without enchant-dev, it
> is required since 2008-06-19.

Well it now seems to be working (ie requiring the dev package) so I
guess its ok.

>
>
>>requiring the dev package is what is intended, to maybe add the need
>>for the dev package to the README and check that the configure check
>
> Let me quote from SpellCheck's README:
>
> "Furthermore, you need to have installed enchant with its development
> files (libenchant-dev or enchant-devel)."
>
> :)
>

mv README README_MORE_CAREFULLY  :-)

>
>>isn't still flaky so it doesn't cause confusion for others.
>
> For testing, I changed the required enchant version to 1.9 in
> build/spellcheck.m4 to simulate that the library is missing and after
> re-running ./autogen.sh, configure said that the spell check plugin is
> not to be build.
> That seems correct to me. If not, I'm afraid Chow need to give it a
> look. The autotools magic in the g-p project is just scary to me :).
>

ditto.

Cheers
Lex


> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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