bug#25836: [aspell-devel] Honoring ‘ASPELL_CONF’ in libaspell

[Kevin Atkinson]

Hi,

It would be better to change the compiled in defaults.  I believe
the --enable-dict-dir configure option should change the default for dict-dir.

Kevin

On Sun, 26 Mar 2017, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Hello!
>
> GNU Guix does not follow the file system hierarchy standard (FHS) and
> thus does not have a “standard location” where dictionaries can be
> looked for.
>
> When using the ‘aspell’ command-line tool, that’s not a problem: users
> can simply do
>
>  export ASPELL_CONF="dict-dir $HOME/.guix-profile/lib/aspell"
>
> and then ‘aspell’ will look for dictionaries in this place.
>
> However, libaspell does not honor ‘ASPELL_CONF’, and thus libraries such
> as Enchant that link against libaspell think there are no dictionaries
> around because they’re not looking in the right place:
>
>  https://bugs.gnu.org/25836
>
> To work around this, I considered patching our ‘aspell’ package in Guix
> such that libaspell would always honor ‘ASPELL_CONF’.  I tried this
> naive patch: