Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: >> >>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: >>>> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: >>>> >>>>> I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have >>>>> no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) >>>>> or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. >>>>> >>>>> I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several >>>>> times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > >>>>> Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. >>>>> >>>>> Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by >>>>> restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. >>>>> >>>>> :(( >>>>> >>>>> Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? >>>> >>>> Did you build LyX yourself? >>>> If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? >>> >>> >>> I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults >>> came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this >>> ought to be a default instead of an option. >> >> You did not tell me, how you build it. >> Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for >> developers installed. >> In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the >> logs. > > > The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the > output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per > the quick directions.
I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. >>> The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that >>> would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to >>> not enable that for the masses... >> >> I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. >> But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. > > > My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. > Spell checking has always worked before. > > Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? > I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... The only location I know of on Linux is the preferences file in your home. Stephan
