Re: installing ispell by emacs on microsoft system

[David R]

Thanks so far
I built aspell from source using cygwin

(require 'ispell)
(setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")

It works mostly fine with emacs.  But there is always a catch.....
M-x ispell-complete-word-interior-frag
produces in the minibuffer
"searching for program : no such file or directory, egrep"

I had egrep installed already, so I got the lastest tarball.
unpacked, configure, make check
All 10 tests passed
egrep and fgrep and grep all run under cygwin but only grep does under 
cmd shell
Is emacs running external commands via a cmd shell??
can I change this to a cygwin shell?

make install produces the following
Making install in intl
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a/intl'
if test "grep" = "gettext" \
           && test '' = 'intl-compat.o'; then \
	  /bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) 
echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` /usr/local/lib /usr/local/include; \
          /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libintl.h /usr/local/include/libintl.h; \
          @LIBTOOL@ --mode=install \
            /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libintl.a /usr/local/lib/libintl.a; \
        else \
          : ; \
        fi
if test 'no' = yes; then \
	  test no != no || /bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo 
"./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` /usr/local/lib; \
          temp=/usr/local/lib/t-charset.alias; \
          dest=/usr/local/lib/charset.alias; \
          if test -f /usr/local/lib/charset.alias; then \
            orig=/usr/local/lib/charset.alias; \
            sed -f ref-add.sed $orig > $temp; \
            /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $temp $dest; \
            rm -f $temp; \
          else \
            if test no = no; then \
              orig=charset.alias; \
              sed -f ref-add.sed $orig > $temp; \
              /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $temp $dest; \
              rm -f $temp; \
            fi; \
          fi; \
	  /bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) 
echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` /usr/local/share/locale; \
          test -f /usr/local/share/locale/locale.alias \
            && orig=/usr/local/share/locale/locale.alias \
            || orig=./locale.alias; \
          temp=/usr/local/share/locale/t-locale.alias; \
          dest=/usr/local/share/locale/locale.alias; \
          sed -f ref-add.sed $orig > $temp; \
          /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $temp $dest; \
          rm -f $temp; \
        else \
          : ; \
        fi
if test "grep" = "gettext"; then \
	  /bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) 
echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` /usr/local/share/gettext/intl; \
	  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 VERSION 
/usr/local/share/gettext/intl/VERSION; \
	  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ChangeLog.inst 
/usr/local/share/gettext/intl/ChangeLog; \
	  dists="COPYING.LIB-2.0 COPYING.LIB-2.1 Makefile.in config.charset 
locale.alias ref-add.sin ref-del.sin gmo.h gettextP.h hash-string.h 
plural-exp.h eval-plural.h os2compat.h libgnuintl.h loadinfo.h 
bindtextdom.c dcgettext.c dgettext.c gettext.c finddomain.c loadmsgcat.c 
localealias.c textdomain.c l10nflist.c explodename.c dcigettext.c 
dcngettext.c dngettext.c ngettext.c plural.y plural-exp.c localcharset.c 
localename.c osdep.c os2compat.c intl-compat.c"; \
          for file in $dists; do \
            /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$file \
                            /usr/local/share/gettext/intl/$file; \
          done; \
          chmod a+x /usr/local/share/gettext/intl/config.charset; \
          dists="plural.c"; \
          for file in $dists; do \
            if test -f $file; then dir=.; else dir=.; fi; \
            /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $dir/$file \
                            /usr/local/share/gettext/intl/$file; \
          done; \
	  dists="xopen-msg.sed linux-msg.sed po2tbl.sed.in cat-compat.c 
COPYING.LIB-2 gettext.h libgettext.h plural-eval.c"; \
          for file in $dists; do \
            rm -f /usr/local/share/gettext/intl/$file; \
          done; \
        else \
          : ; \
        fi
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a/intl'
Making install in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a/po'
file=./`echo cs | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file cs.po
file=./`echo de | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file de.po
file=./`echo el | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file el.po
file=./`echo eo | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file eo.po
file=./`echo es | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file es.po
file=./`echo et | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file et.po
file=./`echo fr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file fr.po
file=./`echo gl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file gl.po
file=./`echo hr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file hr.po
file=./`echo id | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file id.po
file=./`echo it | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file it.po
file=./`echo ja | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file ja.po
file=./`echo ko | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file ko.po
file=./`echo nl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file nl.po
file=./`echo no | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file no.po
file=./`echo pl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file pl.po
file=./`echo pt_BR | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file pt_BR.po
file=./`echo ru | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file ru.po
file=./`echo sl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file sl.po
file=./`echo sv | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH : -o $file sv.po
if test -r ".././mkinstalldirs"; then \
          .././mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \
        else \
          /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \
        fi
mkdir //usr
mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr': No such host or network path
mkdir //usr/local
mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr/local': No such host or network path
mkdir //usr/local/share
mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr/local/share': No such host or 
network path
make[1]: *** [install-data-yes] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a/po'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1