I'm still not too sure what your goal is: are you trying to avoid Fink entirely? Or do you just want to install in /usr/local? (I hope you are aware that you could in fact do that using Fink if you wanted to...)
In any case, you can get probably get some important clues by reading the .info and .patch files for the corresponding Fink package. For example, I read in the DescPort section of aspell-0.50.2-1.info the phrase "shared libs don't build, so they are disabled in configure." and in fact the Fink package passes the flag --disable-shared to aspell for configure. That might address one of the problems you are having. Now, just telling us "it can't find the dev files" is usually not enough information. There are many things which could cause that, and seeing the actual error message you received might help people debug your problem. So I suggest providing more information about the errors you are seeing. Please don't be surprised or offended, though, if you don't get a lot of help from this list. The Fink developers have spent a lot of time solving these problems already within the Fink system, whereas you are avoiding the Fink system, so they might choose to spend their time helping folks who are already taking advantage of the work they have done by using their packages. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
