RE: [h-e-w] Current ispell port?

[Underwood, Jonathan]

Hi

If you go to the cygwin website (www.cygwin.com) and click on more software
(http://www.cygwin.com/ported.html) and then "a list of programs built with
the current release", you are taken to the following list of packages built
for cygwin, of which ispell is one of them:

http://www.hirmke.de/software/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Hirmke_Michael
/GNUWin32-links.html


Specifically, the following gives all the info you need:
http://www.hirmke.de/software/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre
_A/V1.1/ispell-3.2.06-cygwin-1.3-bin.README

Unfortunately Pierre Humblet doesn't give a cygwin source distribution with
the changes included to do your own build. I've hacked one together, and it
is attached as a tar.gz file. make all followed by make install should do
everything you need. You will need to create the directory /usr/local/man if
it doesn't already exist in your cygwin tree. I'm going to mail this source
archive to the ispell maintainers so they can hopefully add the changes
needed for cygwin to the ispell distribution. Maybe.

Hope that helps

jonathan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taed Wynnell [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: May 15, 2002 1:11 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: [h-e-w] Current ispell port?
> 
> 
> Currently, the FAQ contains the following entry:
> 
>       How do I perform spell checks, using Ispell?
>       Ispell version 3 is the latest official supported version of the
> ispell package for Windows. 
>       Ispeel 3.1 has support for multiple languages, and may 
> be used in
> flyspell-mode. 
>       The Cygnus port of ispell 3.1 works well with Emacs and 
> the flyspell
> package. [Details] 
> 
> The link for details goes to:
>       
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs/discuss/ispe
> ll31-cygwin
> Which gives some now-invalid URLs to get the various packages.
> 
> Since the Detailed instructions are 3 years old and the URLs 
> are invalid, I
> assume that there's a better way to get ispell for Win32 at this time?
> 
> Where could I find this information and could whomsoever 
> update the FAQ?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers!
> 
>

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