Re: dependency glitch with Gtk2::Spell rpm

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Joe Smith said:
> Seems maybe the version numbering has slipped somewhere:
>
> perl-Gtk2-Spell-1.03-1.rh9.i386.rpm (sourceforge)
>
> requires: ... libpspell.so.4 ...
>
> I have:
>
> $ rpm -q --provides aspell
> libaspell.so.15
> libpspell.so.15
> pspell
> aspell = 12:0.50.3-16
>
> but I get a failed dependency:
>
> $ rpm -Uvh perl-Gtk2-Spell-1.03-1.rh9.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          libpspell.so.4 is needed by perl-Gtk2-Spell-1.03-1
>
> -nodeps gets it installed, but ldd does show 'libpspell.so.4 => not
> found', so it won't work as is.
>
> I gather there have been major reorgs in aspell/GNU aspell/pspell
> recently, and I can't quite follow what the 'correct' requirement is.

you guess is as good as mine. the whole spell checker situation is one big
awful mess. one of the dists at some point had a completely broken
aspell/pspell/ispell/whatever out of the box. the pkg-config stuff was all
wrong.

i gave up on it long ago. i'm not that much a fan of GtkSpell at this point.
(i think) evolution uses something called gnome spell which seems a lot more
mature and just better in general. i haven't gotten around to looking at
binding it, without looking at it i would think it would be nearly trivial if
anyone is up to it, would be a good module for someone new to Gtk2-Perl
bindings to get their feet wet with.

> This is on a Fedora1 system (not rh9), but that shouldn't matter for
> this, no?  Guess it's time to rebuild it ...

yeah, if you really want Gtk2::Spell build it from source.

-rm