Subject: Re: To windows developers.
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Mon Aug 28 2000 - 21:43:54 CDT
In that case it's probably my change where I changed the format of the
hash files from zipped to normal. Someone who has Windows please fix
this on Windows, I changed src/Makefile but apparently that's not
enough for the windows build.
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 12:35:34PM -0500, Paul Egli wrote:
> At 09:08 AM 8/28/00 -0700, WJCarpenter wrote:
> >ms> Hi Windows types, Bob Seivers says spell checking in busted on
> >ms> Windows. Can someone verify this?
>
> Well, since I was the source of Bob's information I don't think I'm the one
> to verify it, but... When I do a "make distribution" on the latest CVS
> code, do the installation, and run AbiWord, there is no spell checking
> whatsoever (neither check-as-you-type or selecting "spelling" from the menu
> catch any mistakes).
>
> If I copy the executable file ("Abiword.exe") of the latest build and use
> it to replace the "Abiword.exe" of, say, an 0.7.10 installation, spell
> checking will work as expected (in essence, running the latest Abiword.exe
> from a 0.7.10 installation).
> If I replace the "Abiword.exe" of a make distribution of the latest code
> with the "Abiword.exe" from 0.7.10, spell checking will not work.
>
> (Just trying to emphasize that it seems to be a problem with the
> installation, not the .exe file)
>
>
> >It so happens that I built on Windows2000 for the first time last
> >week. I don't see any problems. In particular, spell-check works as
> >expected. I used the 082300 nightly source tarball of abi and wv, and
> >the 0.7.10 download version of all the other stuff.
>
> I suspect that it works for you because you're using the 0.7.10 version of
> abidistfiles.
>
> -Paul Egli
>
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