[gobolinux-users] Aspell error resolved

[Andy Feldman]

On 2/28/07, pp_o2 <pp_o2 at o2.pl> wrote:
> It worked before I've compiled your aspell recipe. It worked because I
> had symlinked manually dict data from aspell-pl/en into
> /Programs/Aspell/Current/lib/aspell-0.60
>
> Now you've changed .../lib/aspell-0.60 into .../lib/aspell and changed
> data-dir variable in aspell.conf file and we still are in a start
> point.  You didn't merge contents of the two separate directories. No
> wonder aspell does not see its data files.

Actually, changing the name of the folders to be the same ('aspell'
rather than 'aspell-0.60') is all you need to do, and SymlinkProgram
should take care of merging the contents automatically in
/System/Links/Libraries/aspell.

I can't test the various Aspell recipes now since I am not at my home
computer, but I would expect the following things to be true if you
use Jonas's new recipes, or if you rename or symlink your aspell-0.60
folder(s) to just 'aspell' and re-run SymlinkProgram on each of the
Aspell programs and dictionaries:

- /Programs/Aspell/Current/lib/aspell is a folder (or a symlink to a
folder) with at least one file in it.
- /Programs/Aspell-EN/Current/lib/aspell is a folder (or a symlink to
a folder) with at least one file in it.
- /System/Links/Libraries/aspell is a folder (NOT a symlink).
- All the files from /Programs/*/Current/lib/aspell are symlinked
inside of /System/Links/Libraries/aspell.
- You have the line 'data-dir /System/Links/Libraries/aspell' in your
aspell configuration, or whatever configuration is necessary to get
aspell to look in /S/L/L/aspell for its dictionaries.

If one of these things is not true, the installation of aspell almost
certainly won't work properly. Thanks for the bug report that the
existing recipe(s) didn't set this up properly, and I hope Jonas's new
ones have fixed it! (And if so, thanks to Jonas for the recipes :-) ).

-Andy