Re: Abiword under NetBSD and everything is mispelled!

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 04:11:00 EDT

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    > I installed abiword via NetBSD pkgsrc (using NetBSD pkgsrc
    > editors/abiword/Makefile,v 1.44). This Abiword source is patched. The
    > patches are available via CVS:
    > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/editors/abiword/
    >
    > Abiword via pkgsrc depends on NetBSD package:
    > ispell-base-[0-9]*:../../textproc/ispell-base
    >
    > I have ispell-base-3.1.20nb1.
    > International Ispell Version 3.1.20 10/10/95
    >
    > My default ispell uses American English. And ispell works.

    ispell has a number of compile-time options (array sizes etc.) that affect
    its behaviour, and the NetBSD maintainer of AbiWord has patched (patch-ae)
    AbiWord's ispell dictionary reader to match NetBSD's ispell defaults - so
    AbiWord's dictionaries (LittleEndian32.hash & BigEndian32.hash and all
    abispell stuff) is incompatible. I can understand why the NetBSD
    maintainer opted to do this (non-duplication of dictionaries, etc.) but I
    don't entirely approve.

    None of which explains why spelling is broken.

    I'm not sure, but AbiWord ought to compile un-patched on NetBSD, and that
    would allow you to use abispell stuff - it would certainly make it easier
    for us to help you!

    Regards, Frank

    Francis James Franklin
    F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk

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