Jon, On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:12:00PM +0000, Jon Ericson wrote: > Inspired by the recent call for contributors > (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-02/msg01512.html), I > contacted Pierre A. Humblet, who maintains a Cygwin binary of ispell: > ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A > > He kindly gave me the go-ahead to contribute an "official" ispell > package, but expressed the following: Before you go too far, I would really recommend aspell/pspell over ispell because they are *much* better. I just switched a few weeks ago and I am extremely happy. For more info, check out the following: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aspell/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspell/ Note that aspell/pspell build OOTB under Cygwin. See attached for my build recipes sans tar commands -- you may find them useful. Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com
pspell: $ configure --disable-ltdl $ make $ make prefix=/tmp/pspell/usr/local install aspell: $ configure $ make $ make prefix=/tmp/aspell/usr/local install $ cd /tmp/aspell $ strip usr/local/bin/*.exe $ strip -g usr/local/lib/libaspell.a -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com
