[Aspell-user] Truncated *.rws files in /usr/lib/aspell

[David Oberlitner]

Hello,

I have a successful Aspell installation on a sparc / gentoo linux platform.

I am having difficulty with a fresh install on a Pentium 4 / gentoo linux 
platform.

It appears that all is well except the .rws files in /usr/lib/aspell are 20480 
bytes in size.

"aspell -c test_file.txt" invokes the speller. It functions except that the 
available word list is so small that it doesn't find correctly spelled words 
nor does it find meaningful suggestions for misspelled words.

"aspell --master=./en dump master" yields a list of 271 words on the Pentium 
box and 150226 words on the sparc box.

Any pointers or help will be appreciated.
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Dictionary Installation Procedure and Output:

$ cd aspell-en-0.51-1
$ ./configure
        Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/lib/aspell
        Finding Data file location ... /usr/share/aspell
$ make
        /usr/bin/word-list-compress d < en-only.cwl | /usr/bin/aspell  
--lang=en 
create master ./en-only.rws
        /usr/bin/word-list-compress d < en_CA-only.cwl | /usr/bin/aspell  
--lang=en 
create master ./en_CA-only.rws
        /usr/bin/word-list-compress d < en_GB-only.cwl | /usr/bin/aspell  
--lang=en 
create master ./en_GB-only.rws
        /usr/bin/word-list-compress d < en_US-only.cwl | /usr/bin/aspell  
--lang=en 
create master ./en_US-only.rws
# make install
        mkdir -p /usr/lib/aspell/
        cp en-only.rws en_CA-only.rws en_GB-only.rws en_US-only.rws 
american.alias 
american-w-accents.alias british.alias british-w-accents.alias canadian.alias 
canadian-w-accents.alias en.multi en_CA.multi en_CA-w-accents.multi 
en_GB.multi en_GB-w-accents.multi en_US.multi en_US-w-accents.multi 
english.alias /usr/lib/aspell/
        cd /usr/lib/aspell/ && chmod 644 en-only.rws en_CA-only.rws 
en_GB-only.rws 
en_US-only.rws american.alias american-w-accents.alias british.alias 
british-w-accents.alias canadian.alias canadian-w-accents.alias en.multi 
en_CA.multi en_CA-w-accents.multi en_GB.multi en_GB-w-accents.multi 
en_US.multi en_US-w-accents.multi english.alias
        mkdir -p /usr/share/aspell/
        cp en.dat en_phonet.dat /usr/share/aspell/
        cd /usr/share/aspell/ && chmod 644 en.dat en_phonet.dat
# ls -l /usr/lib/share
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    85 Jun 12 23:52 american-w-accents.alias
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    75 Jun 12 23:52 american.alias
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    85 Jun 12 23:52 british-w-accents.alias
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    75 Jun 12 23:52 british.alias
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    85 Jun 12 23:52 canadian-w-accents.alias
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    75 Jun 12 23:52 canadian.alias
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root 20480 Jun 12 23:52 en-only.rws
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root   132 Jun 12 23:52 en.multi
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root 20480 Jun 12 23:52 en_CA-only.rws
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    94 Jun 12 23:52 en_CA-w-accents.multi
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root   113 Jun 12 23:52 en_CA.multi
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root 20480 Jun 12 23:52 en_GB-only.rws
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    94 Jun 12 23:52 en_GB-w-accents.multi
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root   113 Jun 12 23:52 en_GB.multi
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root 20480 Jun 12 23:52 en_US-only.rws
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    94 Jun 12 23:52 en_US-w-accents.multi
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root   113 Jun 12 23:52 en_US.multi
        -rw-r--r--  1 root root    72 Jun 12 23:52 english.alias