Enabling Aspell Under MacOSX

Enabling Aspell under Mac OS XCompiling

The following steps apply to:

• MacOS 10.3 and higher
• Fink 0.17.0 and higher
• Fink rsync (recommanded) or Fink cvs
• gcc 3.3

As of version 1.0.5 of bluefish, those steps are no more necessary. Just install aspell from fink and the desired dictionaries.

Steps to perform:

1. Installing aspell version 0.5.4:

Get aspell from http://aspell.sourceforge.net/ (avoid Safari, since it discards the gz part of the file)

Copy the source file into /sw/src:

sudo cp thedirectorywhereyoudownloadaspell/aspell-0.50.4.1.tar.gz /sw/src/

Calculate the md5 sum:

md5 /sw/src/aspell-0.50.4.1.tar.gz

Create a local directory if it does not exist:

sudo mkdir -p /sw/fink/10.3/local/main/finkinfo/

Copy the info file into local directory:

sudo cp /sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text/aspell.info /sw/fink/10.3/local/main/finkinfo/

Change the info file:

sudo pico /sw/fink/10.3/local/main/finkinfo/aspell.info

The following lines should be:

Version: 0.50.4.1

Revision: 11

Source-MD5: the sum you've computed previously

~CompileScript: (./configure %c; make)

Remove --disabled-shared from the ~ConfigureParams line

Add the following lines after ~InstallScript (use tab to indent the lines):

<verbatim>
 SplitOff: <<
    Package: %N-shlibs
    Files: lib/libspell.dylib
    Shlibs: %p/lib/lib*spell.15.0.2.dylib 7.0.0 %n (>= 0.50.4.1-1)
    DocFiles: COPYING* README
 <<
 SplitOff2: <<
    Package: %N-dev
    Depends: %N (>= %v-%r)
    BuildDependsOnly: True
    Files: include lib/libspell.
    DocFiles: COPYING* README
 <<
</verbatim>

Install aspell with:

fink install aspell

Install aspell-dev and aspell-shlibs with:

fink install aspell-dev aspell-shlibs

Install the dictionary you want with (here German one):

fink install aspell-de

2. Installing bluefish version 0.12:

Download the tarball from [1], section Development Snapshots.

Copy it to /sw/src:

sudo cp thedirectorywhereyoudownloadthetarball/nameofthetarball /sw/src/

Copy Fink's bluefish.info and Fink's bluefish.patch files to your local tree with:

sudo cp /sw/fink/10.1-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/editors/bluefish.* /sw/fink/10.2/local/main/finkinfo/

Compute the MD5 checksum for the snapshot with:

md5 /sw/src/nameofthebluefishtarball

Edit the info file with:

sudo pico /sw/fink/10.3/local/main/finkinfo/bluefish.info

The following lines should be:

Version: 0.12

Revision: 12

Change aspell to aspell-dev in the BuildDepends line.

Change the patch file as follows:

<verbatim>
 diff -Naur bluefish-0.12-old/configure bluefish-0.12/configure
 --- bluefish-0.12-old/configure Mon Dec  1 18:55:36 2003
 +++ bluefish-0.12/configure     Mon Dec  1 18:58:53 2003
 @@ -3738,7 +3738,7 @@
    echo $ECHON \"(cached) $ECHOC\" >&6
  else
    acchecklibsaveLIBS=$LIBS
 -LIBS=\"-laspell  $LIBS\"
 +LIBS=\"-laspell -lstdc++ $LIBS\"
  cat >conftest.$acext <<ACEOF
  / confdefs.h.  /
  _ACEOF
 @@ -3797,7 +3797,7 @@
  echo \"$asme:$LINENO: result: $accvlibaspellnewaspell_config\" >&5
  echo \"${ECHOT}$accvlibaspellnewaspell_config\" >&6
  if test $accvlibaspellnewaspellconfig = yes; then
 -  LIBS=\"$LIBS -laspell\"
 +  LIBS=\"$LIBS -laspell -lstdc++\"
                 cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
  #define HAVE_LIBASPELL 1
  _ACEOF
</verbatim>

Remove bluefish if it already exists:

fink remove bluefish

Install bluefish with:

fink install bluefish