Re: aspell

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On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Roland Illig wrote:

> Hello Kevin,
>
> I am trying to install GNU aspell 0.60.4 on Solaris via pkgsrc 
> (http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/), and I am seeing a big problem. 
> The shared library libaspell.so uses symbols from the C++ standard library, 
> which makes it impossible to link it against simple C programs. For example I 
> have to enter the following line to build gtkspell, which depends on aspell:
>
>    bmake CC=g++ PKGSRC_COMPILER=gcc USE_LANGUAGES="c c++" LIBS=-lstdc++
>
> although I'd rather like that line to be simply
>
>    bmake
>
> The package gtkspell normally only needs a C compiler, but I had to override 
> the C compiler with the C++ compiler, which I find very ugly.
>
> Other packages solve this problem by providing a C-only library called 
> libaspell.la and a C++ wrapper library called libaspellpp.la or 
> libaspell++.la.

Aspell is written in C++.  But you should be able to use the shared 
library with C programs:
   bmake LIBS=-lstdc++
should work.  You shouldn't need to use a C++ compiler, just make sure the 
proper C++ libraries are linked in.