Am 31.03.2010 um 19:31 schrieb Micha Feigin: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:35:42 +0200 > Sebastian Rockel <sebastianroc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Am 31.03.2010 um 14:47 schrieb Pavel Sanda: >> >>> Sebastian Rockel wrote: >>>> Here in the mac version I cannot enable it due to everything on that pref >>>> pane is grayed out:-/ >>> >>> normal spellcheck works? >> >> Also the menu item is grayed out (F7 doesn't do it either). >> I just double checked Lyx 1.6.5 with aspell 0.60.6 (MacPorts) and it works >> fine. >> Running on Mac OSX 10.6.3. >> >> Sebastian > > Sounds to me like you didn't have the aspell development libraries (or other > spell developement libraries) when configuring. I also had that problem under > linux (debian). I installed libaspell-dev and now spelling is working. Not > sure > what the right package is under OsX or how to install it though.
Thanks for the hint, did use the pre-build .dmg version though (see below). > >> >>> pavel Am 01.04.2010 um 00:37 schrieb Stephan Witt: > Am 31.03.2010 um 15:35 schrieb Sebastian Rockel: > >> Am 31.03.2010 um 14:47 schrieb Pavel Sanda: >> >>> Sebastian Rockel wrote: >>>> Here in the mac version I cannot enable it due to everything on that pref >>>> pane is grayed out:-/ >>> >>> normal spellcheck works? >> >> Also the menu item is grayed out (F7 doesn't do it either). >> I just double checked Lyx 1.6.5 with aspell 0.60.6 (MacPorts) and it works >> fine. >> Running on Mac OSX 10.6.3. > > I guess you're using the LyX-2.0.0alpha1.dmg I build on Snow Leopard. > > You're right, no aspell support :( > I didn't read carefully enough this part of configure output: > > checking aspell.h usability... yes > checking aspell.h presence... yes > checking for aspell.h... yes > checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... no > checking whether to use aspell... no > > So I looked for the reason and found that configure detected the headers of > aspell but did not find the library. Thanks for this clarification and for the build anyway. Sebastian > When trying to improve the situation I learned that my "universal" aspell > library from macports is like that: > > % file /opt/local/lib/libaspell.dylib > /opt/local/lib/libaspell.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures > /opt/local/lib/libaspell.dylib (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit > dynamically linked shared library x86_64 > /opt/local/lib/libaspell.dylib (for architecture i386): Mach-O > dynamically linked shared library i386 > > So in fact I cannot build a ppc version of LyX with aspell now. I'll see what > I can do... > > Stephan >