Hi Jack:
On 04/18/2017 05:33:55 PM Tue, Jack wrote:
I'm trying to compile balsa under Kubuntu 16.10 yakkety. configure --help says default
spell checker is "no" but configure (even with an explicit
--with-spell-checker=no) still fails
checking whether to use an external spell checker... configure enchant
checking for SPELL... no
configure: error: Package requirements ( enchant ) were not met:
If enchant is actually a spell-checker then configure and it's --help need
updating, and if it is just a spell-checker framework, then it should not be
required if no spell checker is being used.
Have I missed something?
I'm going to install it just so I can continue, but it doesn't seem it should
be necessary.
For as long as I can remember, Balsa has been built with some kind of
spell-checker. The original checker is the popup dialog, which steps through
all misspelled words; inline checking requires an external checker, either
GtkSpell, or preferably the well maintained GSpell. They all currently depend
on enchant as the underlying dictionary manager, so it's required for any Balsa
build.
So --with-spell-checker=no actually means spell-checker = builtin popup;
perhaps it should be --spell-checker=internal. With some work, we could extend
the options to really include no spell checking, and remove the conditional
dependency on enchant. But most setups would have it already installed.
Peter
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