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Re: ispell package
- To: Jon Ericson <Jonathan dot L dot Ericson at jpl dot nasa dot gov>
- Subject: Re: ispell package
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:34:39 -0500
- Cc: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
- References: <86ofvmjyvz.fsf@jon_ericson.jpl.nasa.gov>
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
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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: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com
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- To: Jason Tishler <jason dot tishler at ny dot dothill dot com>
- Subject: aspell/pspell build instructions
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:57:21 -0500
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
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
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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: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com
Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com