On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 21:18 -0700, Keith Curtis wrote: > Dear all, > I can't get the automatic spell-checking to work after doing a fresh > git > clone / build on (Arch) Linux. > > My autogen.sh is simply: --without-java --without-help > > The UI lets me set the text to English (which was the default) but when > I go to Tools-Spelling, there are no language choices (only "None") in > that dropdown.
Without any overriding configure flags the defaults are --without-myspell-dicts so your libreoffice build doesn't bundle any of the dictionaries from "dictionaries". But the default of --with-system-dicts should be active which defaults to looking at the path specified by --external-dict-dir which if unset should have looked into /usr/share/hunspell if it exists and /usr/share/myspell if the former doesn't exist but the latter does. In your config.log search for "include MySpell dictionaries" and the few lines there are the answers to the above config questions, e.g. configure:14100: checking whether to include MySpell dictionaries configure:14109: result: no configure:14123: checking whether to use dicts from external paths configure:14126: result: yes configure:14129: checking for spelling dictionary directory configure:14139: result: file:///usr/share/hunspell is my config.log stating that the system dictionaries in /usr/share/hunspell will be used for spell checking, and I have a bunch of system-dicts in there including English ones. See if your config.log claims something similar and see if the selected dir is empty/wrong for some reason or other _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
