[Users] [Bug 3999] New: No spell checker

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:28:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 06:49:11 -0700, sylpheed at 911networks.com wrote:
>>On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:16:24 +0000
>>noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:
>>  
>>>http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3999
>>>
>>>            Bug ID: 3999
>>>           Summary: No spell checker
>>>    Classification: Unclassified
>>>           Product: Claws Mail
>>>           Version: GIT
>>>          Hardware: PC
>>>                OS: Linux
>>>            Status: NEW
>>>          Severity: major
>>>          Priority: P3
>>>         Component: UI/Compose Window/Spell Checker
>>>          Assignee: users at lists.claws-mail.org
>>>          Reporter: info.mardorf at rocketmail.com
>>>
>>>In January upstream moved /usr/bin/enchant and the libraries to
>>>enchant-2, hence spell checking doesn't work anymore, when building
>>>claws against the current release of enchant.
>>>
>>>Several distros, not only rolling releases already migrated to the
>>>latest release of enchant.
>>>
>>>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ claws-mail -v
>>>Claws Mail version 3.16.0git97
>>>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ enchant-2 -v
>>>@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant
>>>2.2.3)    
>>
>>Somehow spellchecking works here:
>>
>>$ cat /etc/lsb-release
>>DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux
>>DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.1.6
>>DISTRIB_CODENAME=Hakoila
>>DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"
>>
>>
>>$claws-mail -v
>>Claws Mail version 3.16.0
>>
>>$enchant-2 -v
>>@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 2.2.3)
>>
>>It could a git version problem  
>
>Distro's not only build claws-mail patched to work with enchant-2,
>they patch several packages. The bug report explicitly mentions "when
>building claws against the current release of enchant" and "Version:
>GIT". Of course, copying a distro's patch from official packages
>seemingly isn't rocket science, but that's not the point. The reason
>for this ticket is to get the upstream source code being compatible
>with enchant and enchant-2.
>
>I'm not a coder, so I can't comment on the configure.ac hint

For

+ sed -i 's/, enchant/, enchant-2/' configure.ac

see

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=xed&id=a1dcf8ce0644b35f4a4ecd295d3c44db80f7327c

>, IIUC some distros patch gtkaspell.c with
>
>enchant_dict_add(gtkaspell->gtkaspeller->speller, gtkaspell->theword,
>strlen(gtkaspell->theword));
>
>For Arch Linux see
>https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/claws-mail&id=08c232c39c98f5652a8b74db212b2138b053973a
>for Debian and Ubuntu flavours or derivatives, see
>https://sources.debian.org/src/claws-mail/3.16.0-1/src/gtk/gtkaspell.c/ .