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If you are having problems compiling check_funs.cpp
then the most
likely reason is due to incompatibilities with the curses implementation
on your system. If this is the case then you can explicitly disable the
curses library with --disable-curses
. By doing this you will
lose the nice full screen interface but hopefully you will be able to at
least get Aspell to compile correctly.
If the curses library is installed in a non-standard location than you
can specify the library and include directory with
--enable-curses=
lib and
--enable-curses-include=
dir.
lib
can either be the complete path of the library--for
example
/usr/local/curses/libcurses.aor the name of the library (for example
ncurses
) or a combined location and library in the form
-L
libdir -l
lib
(for example
-L/usr/local/ncurses/lib -lncurses
).
dir is the location of the curses header files (for example
/usr/local/ncurses/include
).
In order for Aspell to correctly spell check UTF-8 documents the "wide"
version of the curses library must be installed. This is different from
the normal version of curses library, and is normally named
libcursesw
(with a w
at the end) or libncursesw
.
UTF-8 documents will not display correctly without the right curses
version installed.
In addition your system must also support the mblen
function.
Although this function was defined in the ISO C89 standard (ANSI
X3.159-1989), not all systems have it.