gtkspell update

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:26:14 +0000 (UTC), Kevin Kofler wrote:

> This says what it says: gtkspell is now using enchant instead of aspell. For 
> the rationale, see:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary
> 
> > compose.o: In function `compose_set_spell_lang_menu':
> > /builddir/build/BUILD/sylpheed-2.4.8/src/compose.c:5331: undefined reference 
> to `new_aspell_config'
> > /builddir/build/BUILD/sylpheed-2.4.8/src/compose.c:5332: undefined reference 
> to `get_aspell_dict_info_list'
> > /builddir/build/BUILD/sylpheed-2.4.8/src/compose.c:5333: undefined reference 
> to `delete_aspell_config'
> > /builddir/build/BUILD/sylpheed-2.4.8/src/compose.c:5335: undefined reference 
> to `aspell_dict_info_list_elements'
> > /builddir/build/BUILD/sylpheed-2.4.8/src/compose.c:5336: undefined reference 
> to `aspell_dict_info_enumeration_next'
> > /builddir/build/BUILD/sylpheed-2.4.8/src/compose.c:5336: undefined reference 
> to `aspell_dict_info_enumeration_next'
> > /builddir/build/BUILD/sylpheed-2.4.8/src/compose.c:5342: undefined reference 
> to `delete_aspell_dict_info_enumeration'
> 
> And this is Sylpheed trying to use aspell-related functions directly, so of 
> course this doesn't work anymore. If Sylpheed really must use APIs of the 
> underlying spellchecker instead of the gtkspell abstraction,

GtkSpell does not offer an interface that could be used to retrieve the list of
available dictionaries.

> it'll have to be patched to use enchant too.

Which is what I've done as a fix/work-around.

> (Technically, those linker errors could probably be 
> fixed by linking in aspell directly, but that'll not solve the actual problem 
> because Sylpheed would then try to read the list of languages from aspell while 
> gtkspell is actually using enchant.)

Yes, that's not an option.