On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > 17/07/2014 16:57, Scott Kostyshak: > >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Fabio Fiorelli <ff...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: >>> >>> Hello everyone >>> I'm having a problem with the spell-checker. I'm running a computer with >>> CentOS 6.5 installed, and I installed Lyx 2.1. However when I go in the >>> settings, the spell-checker option is greyed out and cannot be activated. >>> The strange thing is that not only a spell-checker was already installed >>> (hunspell from LibreOffice), but I also attempted reinstalling after >>> updating hunspell to the latest version with all the available >>> dictionaries >>> installed. >>> Anyone else had this problem? >>> Many thanks >> >> >> Hi Fabio, >> >> LyX needs to be compiled with spellchecker support enabled (I assume >> this requires the devel libraries to link against). If you are >> compiling with CMake, try >> -DLYX_HUNSPELL=ON -DLYX_ENCHANT=ON >> for both Hunspell and Enchant. > > > Do you mean that cmake does not enable them by default? This is bad, IMO. > The configure script configure whatever spellcheckers it finds, and it is > possible to disable them individually.
I did mean that but I was mistaken (I saw the - LYX_HUNSPELL = OFF reported at the end and thought that meant I wasn't compiling with Hunspell, but now I see that it just means that I didn't explicitly ask for it to compile with Hunspell). Scott
