[Aspell-user] Cannot Build 0.60.1 --disable-nls on Solaris

[Vin Shelton]

Heyla,

I downloaded aspell-0.60.1 and tried to configure and build it on a
Solaris 5.8 system here at work.

1. The first problem I noticed was that I cannot build outside of the
source tree.  ../../src/aspell-0.60.1/configure <opts> yields the
following:

cd gen; perl mk-dirs_h.pl /u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8 
/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/lib/aspell-0.60 
/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/lib/aspell-0.60  
/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/etc >  dirs.h
Can't open perl script "mk-dirs_h.pl": No such file or directory.
Use -S to search $PATH for it.
make[1]: *** [gen/dirs.h] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/build/aspell-0.60.1'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

2. Since I need to support building on multiple platforms, I solved that
problem by creating a tree of symlinks and I then discovered my second
problem; it appears I cannot build on this platform if I've configured
--disable-nls:

if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/build/aspell-0.60.1 
-I./gen  -I/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/build/aspell-0.60.1/gen 
-I/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/build/aspell-0.60.1/common 
-I/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/build/aspell-0.60.1/interfaces/cc/ 
-I/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/build/aspell-0.60.1/modules/speller/default/ 
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/share/locale\"   -g -O2 
-fno-exceptions -MT prog/check_funs.o -MD -MP -MF "$depbase.Tpo" -c -o 
prog/check_funs.o prog/check_funs.cpp; \
then mv -f "$depbase.Tpo" "$depbase.Po"; else rm -f "$depbase.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
prog/check_funs.cpp: In function `void get_line(acommon::String&)':
prog/check_funs.cpp:334: error: `wget_wch' undeclared (first use this function)
prog/check_funs.cpp:334: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only 
once for each function it appears in.)
prog/check_funs.cpp:348: error: `KEY_CODE_YES' undeclared (first use this 
function)
prog/check_funs.cpp:370: error: `wins_nwstr' undeclared (first use this 
function)
prog/check_funs.cpp:382: error: `cchar_t' undeclared (first use this function)
prog/check_funs.cpp:382: error: expected `;' before "cc"
prog/check_funs.cpp:383: error: `attr_t' undeclared (first use this function)
prog/check_funs.cpp:383: error: expected `;' before "att"
prog/check_funs.cpp:385: error: `cc' undeclared (first use this function)
prog/check_funs.cpp:385: error: `mvwin_wch' undeclared (first use this function)
prog/check_funs.cpp:386: error: `att' undeclared (first use this function)
prog/check_funs.cpp:386: error: `getcchar' undeclared (first use this function)
make[1]: *** [prog/check_funs.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/sheltonv/software/SunOS-5.8/build/aspell-0.60.1'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

3. Finally, a minor nit: I was looking for a place to send this bug
report, and I couldn't find an email address listed in the README
file.  I got this email address from the http://aspell.net homepage -
I hope it's correct.

Thanks for aspell.  I appreciate it and use it frequently.

Regards,
  Vin Shelton