On 11 nov 2009, at 20.29, BH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:23 PM, BH <bewih...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes >> <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: >>>> Sure it is. But I do not have much time to spend in front of a mac :( >>> >>> OK, here is a new patch that applies to branch (replaces nofork2). >>> >>> Could some kind mac users (and others) try it out? I am running out of time. >>> >>> The part in ForkedCalls should be applied anyway I think. >>> >>> The autosave part is in Buffer.cpp. >> >> I still can't get spellchecking to work with this patch. Launching LyX >> from the terminal, I get the following message there when I try to >> spellcheck: >> >> ForkedProcess::kill(5) >> Can't kill non-existent process! >> Error: Spellchecker error >> ---------------------------------------- >> The spellchecker could not be started >> The ispell process returned an error. >> Perhaps it has been configured wrongly ? >> >> After dismissing the dialog in LyX saying that the spellchecker can't >> be started, I get the following message in the terminal: >> >> Dialog.cpp(129): Dialog "spellchecker" failed to translate the data >> string passed to show() > > Sorry ... ignore that. Trying to clean-up, I realized that I hadn't > properly reverted the nofork2 patch. Restoring everything to 1.6.x-svn > and applying nofork3, spellchecking works fine. > > I can't test on snow leopard, though, to see if it fixes problems there. > > BH
Bennett, Something is very wrong with my system (compiling crashes and sometimes locks the entire OS, which is why I haven't mitigated the patch for INSTALL.MacOSX yet). So I can't compile it. But if you can mail me a binary I can try it on SnowLeopard. /Anders
