Re: [Pan-users] problem with pan 0.12.91 compiling

[David Shochat]

Jeff Vian wrote:

> I am trying to compile pan, and get an error that appears to be 
> related to gtkspell
>
> I downloaded and installed the rpm for gtkspell from the pan site 
> before I started to compile pan.
>
> The pan compile failed with the following linker error on the pan binary:
>
>       /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpspell

What I found is that pspell is a separate package that you need to build 
and install along with everything else (or get it as an RPM in which you 
will also need pspell-devel). I found the source for it via a freshmeat 
search. I don't understand why this was not caught during configure. 
However, when I decided to build aspell from source, its configure did 
complain that I needed to build pspell first. I wish I understood what 
all these *spell's do and how their interdependencies work. And I found 
out the hard way (see my previous post) that pan will fail with 
"Aborted" if you don't have both personal and global aspell 
configuration files.
-- David