Re: configure options - problem

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

Hi Jack:

On 04/18/2017 05:33:55 PM Tue, Jack wrote:
> I'm trying to compile balsa under Kubuntu 16.10 yakkety. configure --help says default spell checker is "no" 
> but configure (even with an explicit --with-spell-checker=no) still fails
>
> checking whether to use an external spell checker... configure enchant
> checking for SPELL... no
> configure: error: Package requirements ( enchant ) were not met:
>
> If enchant is actually a spell-checker then configure and it's --help need updating, and if it is just a 
> spell-checker framework, then it should not be required if no spell checker is being used.
>
> Have I missed something?
>
> I'm going to install it just so I can continue, but it doesn't seem it should be necessary.

For as long as I can remember, Balsa has been built with some kind of spell-checker. The original checker is 
the popup dialog, which steps through all misspelled words; inline checking requires an external checker, 
either GtkSpell, or preferably the well maintained GSpell. They all currently depend on enchant as the 
underlying dictionary manager, so it's required for any Balsa build.

So --with-spell-checker=no actually means spell-checker = builtin popup; perhaps it should be 
--spell-checker=internal. With some work, we could extend the options to really include no spell checking, 
and remove the conditional dependency on enchant. But most setups would have it already installed.

Peter