dictionary locations

Followup: I got the aspell-0.60.5 source package to try to figure out  
what's going on. I compiled example-c.c from the examples folder. It  
throws the same error. I tried adding (to the code below)

   aspell_config_replace (spell_config, "dict-dir", "/sw/share/aspell");

since that seemed to be where the dictionary files are, and then got this:

The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60//en_phonet.dat" can not be opened for  
reading.

(earlier it reported that it couldn't open  
/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/en.dat for reading; there was no such file  
there, so I copied one over from the source package; then it moved on to  
this further reading failure.)

Kinda stumped here. Is there an env variable or PATH value that needs to  
be set?

Also, I checked with Fink Commander to see what version I'm running, and  
used it to make sure

aspell-dev aspell-shlibs aspell-en and aspell

are all the most current.


-------------earlier message

I'm having a problem like Shawn Riordan's. I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8. Aspell
is installed and works correctly through Aquamacs. I want to use the C API
to use Aspell in a little programming puzzle (Euler Project Problem 59).
I've installed the en_US dictionary, and aspell works correctly from the
command line. But when I run this code (basically exactly from the Aspell
C API doc):


     AspellConfig * spell_config = new_aspell_config();
     aspell_config_replace(spell_config, "lang", "en_US");
     AspellCanHaveError * possible_err = new_aspell_speller(spell_config);
     AspellSpeller * spell_checker = 0;
     if (aspell_error_number(possible_err) != 0) {
       printf ("%s\nl", aspell_error_message(possible_err));
       return EXIT_FAILURE;
     }
     else
       spell_checker = to_aspell_speller(possible_err);

I get


No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".