on 2/25/03 9:15 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Bigler writes: > >> --with-ispell description elsewhere in the doc seems to confirm this. But >> in my case it was clearly necessary to set --with-ispell correctly before >> spell-checking would work. Maybe the configure script only looks in certain >> places, and maybe only for the name ispell and not aspell? I didn't check >> on this. > > Configure looks in your $PATH. Well, in theory, at least.
Just to clarify the probably obvious, you must mean the $PATH in effect when the configure script is run. I end up doing the makes as root, and the $PATH for root is: /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr /X11R6/bin:/root/bin > If you installed aspell in some random place in your filesystem, you > obviously can't expect configure to find it. And aspell is located in /usr/local/bin which is on the PATH but not the last item. I could try to take a look at it I suppose. If you have any suggestions in advance for diagnosing this, let me know. (Of course, it is also possible that I forget to do this since everything is working ok for me now.) > Now, there is a small bug in the configure script where the last component > in PATH is not searched. So configure won't find anything installed in the > last directory listed in PATH, at this time.
