Re: [aspell] still on aspell + dec-alpha

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Maurizio Loreti wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> 
> > I will amend that.  It is standard in most parts except the library
> > calls.  I think your best bet to getting this working is to recompile gcc
> > with -fsquangle.  See http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/41.html.
> 
> That would mean I have to recompile all the libraries, both the ones
> coming with gcc and the ones developed by our team to analyze physical
> data; sorry, this is just not feasible.  Our primary task is to do
> physical research, not to test aspell; and I cannot tell to my users "you
> have to recompile whataver object file/library/executable needing a shared
> library/shared library you happen to use/need".

You can always install it in an alternate path......  Alternatively you can
just recompile to standard library and put it in a special place.

I plan on also doing some work to help reduce the symbols lengths by the
next release so you might just be able to get it to compile with gcc
2.95......

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