Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 30, Issue 146

djh <henman <at> it.to-be.co.jp> writes:

> 
> 
> Results to M-: are at the bottom.
> 
> > From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
> > Subject: Re: Incompatibility in emacs & aspell-0.60.4
> > "djh" <henman <at> it.to-be.co.jp> writes:
> > 
> > > GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit) of 2006-08-29
> > > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.21(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-30
> > >
> > > Here is the self contained input to cause the error, iwthout fail, each
> > > time.
> > >
> > > M-X ispell  <CR> 
> > > [snip]
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Error: nroff: dlopen returned \"No such
> file or directory\".")
> [snip]
> Regards,
>   Darel Henman

I too have encountered this problem.  My platform (cygwin/XP) is
similar except that I use XEmacs.

I can reproduce this from (bash) command line:

> aspell -a -m -d american
Error: nroff: dlopen returned "No such file or directory".

So, I don't think it has anything to do with emacs/XEmacs.

This works on a Windows 2000 machine running aspell 0.60.2.
Originally, the XP machine was running aspell 0.60.4.  I tried to
configure it (./configure then make then make install) to use 0.60.2
and 'aspell -v' says it is but it still has this problem.  Maybe
there's still something left over from 0.60.4?  Or is it a problem
specific to cygwin on XP?  I haven't tried upgrading the win2k box to
0.60.4.

Bruce Visscher