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- From: martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick)
- Subject: Making Dictionaries in Ispell
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.160041.1369@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>
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- Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:00:41 GMT
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- Every time I try to install ispell, the code seems to compile correctly,
- but I get a fatal error saying that the system doesn't know how to make
- eng.0. It looks like Makefile is designed to build the dictionaries, but
- I am not sure what else I need to do. I modified the Makefile to tell it
- where a copy of web2 can be found, and that I want it to make the sml+
- dictionary, but it just doesn't happen. There probably isn't anything
- technically wrong, just some procedural step which hasn't become obvious.
- It is said, in the documentation inside Makefile, that the lines
- which build the various possible dictionaries are commented out so that
- dictionaries aren't rebuilt each time that C code is changed. This indicate
- that one must remove the \# infront of the desired instruction. If I do this,
- I get "Unable to make eng.0." If I don't remove it, I get
- "Unable to make english.0." There are warnings about having enough space
- in the temporary directory to build the dictionary, but I don't see any
- indication that even one byte of dictionary is ever created. There is a
- makedict script in the distribution, but it is supposed to be called from
- Makefile. 'Anybody got any ideas?
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