RE: ASPELL aspell-0.60.8.1 compilation failure on MSYS2 + MINGW64

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Hi,

On Fri, 16 May 2025, Vincent Belaïche wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My answer inserted below,
>
>> De : Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]>
>> Envoyé : jeudi 15 mai 2025 18:35
>> À : Vincent Belaïche <[email protected]>
>> Cc : [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> Objet : Re: ASPELL aspell-0.60.8.1 compilation failure on MSYS2 + MINGW64
>>
>>> However, this could be automated by having somewhere in the
>>> m4/lib-link.m4 or m4/lib-prefix.m4 the appropriate autotools M4 macro
>>> for calling (cygpath -m PREFIX) under the hood when the target is
>>> MINGW. This would certainly greatly help MSYS2/pacman repo
>>> maintainers to compile aspell properly.
>>
>> There is a chance this might already be fixed with newer versions of
>> autotools.  If possible try updating the versions of autotools to the
>> latest and see if that helps (the script ./maintainer/autogen might
>> help if you are using the release tarball, although you might have
>> better luck if you checkout the version from git).
>
> Actually I had tried this, I have this error when lauching ./autogen.sh:
>
>  /THE/BUILD/DIRECTORY/aspell/gnulib/gnulib-tool.py: *** minimum supported autoconf version is 2.64. Try adding AC_PREREQ([2.64]) to your configure.ac.
>  /THE/BUILD/DIRECTORY/aspell/gnulib/gnulib-tool.py: *** Stop.

Offhand I have no idea.  My only suggestion is to try using a clean 
checkout from git and if that doesn't work try what it suggests.

I will look into upgrading to the newest versions of autotools for the next 
release.

>>> The other issue that I had is that Emacs ispell.el needs also to know
>>> where the dictionaries are located because it builds some
>>> auto-completion list to help the user select a dictionary amongst
>>> those available. To get this, Emacs ispell calls « aspell -vv » and
>>> expects to find something like
>>>
>>> LIBDIR = "c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/aspell-0.60"
>>>
>>> in the output, where "c:/msys64/mingw64" is whatever prefix the user
>>> configured at install. This also does not work, so I did some hack
>>> which I attached.
>>
>> This is not a windows specific issue.  The correct way to get this
>> information from aspell is:
>>
>>  aspell config dict-dir
>>
>> Kevin
>
> Great, when time allows I will submit a patch to Emacs ispell.el in
> order to fix this and use the correct way.

Thanks.

Kevin
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