Re: [Pan-users] Pan and gtkspell

[Duncan]

arnuld posted on Fri, 24 Aug 2018 21:15:18 +0530 as excerpted:

>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:05 PM Detlef Graef
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Please check the logfile "config.log", maybe you can see what's wrong.
> 
> Oh sorry,  I forgot to mention. I did check when you asked about
> config.log earlier and this is what it says:
> 
> configure:9050: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "gtkspell-2.0 >=
> $GTKSPELL_REQUIRED enchant >= $ENCHANT_REQUIRED"
> Package enchant was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `enchant.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'enchant', required
> by 'virtual:world', not found configure:9053: $? = 1
> 
> I don't understand why it is saying so because enchant is installed in
> standard directory by Arch's package manager pacman:
> 
> address@hidden ~]# pacman -Ss enchant extra/enchant 2.2.3-1 [installed]
>     A wrapper library for generic spell checking

OK, /now/ we're getting somewhere!

Here on gentoo, enchant-2.x is masked (cannot be merged/installed without 
manually unmasking first) with the following comment:

# Incompatible changes in API in Enchant 2. Bug #629838.

That bug is a tracker bug for all the incompatibilities, so enchant-2.x 
can be unmasked when they're fixed:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/629838

One of its blocker bugs, meanwhile, is this one, with patches for 
gtkspell-2 and gtkspell-3:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/629772

So (without patches) enchant-2 is incompatible with gtkspell, and that's 
why enchant-2 isn't being detected as installed.

Bottom line, either install enchant-1, or be prepared to do a bunch of 
patching to get gtkspell and thus pan working with enchant-2.  Given that 
you hadn't already figured out that much on your own, I'd guess reverting 
to enchant-1 for the time being will be by far the easiest for you.  You 
can try enchant-2 again in some months, after the various required 
patches have had time to work their way thru the system.

Of course if the two versions can't coexist on the system (in some cases 
libraries can, on gentoo that's called slotting, not sure about arch) and 
you have some other package that requires enchant-2... well, then you'll 
have to choose.  The good thing is that you can build pan without gtkspell 
support and still use it, just without spellchecking, if necessary.

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