Re: [Aspell-user] can't compile aspell 0.60 under cygwin

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Randal Walser wrote:
> 
> > I'm not having any luck building aspell 0.60 out-of-the-box under
> > cygwin with g++ version 3.3.3 (the latest from cygwin).  Ditto with
> > version 3.2.  aspell compiles OK with both versions, but neither links
> > aspell due to undefined references to aspell_gettext_init and many if
> > not all functions in the acommon namespace.  I'm doing an ordinary
> > ./configure, with no options, and make.  I tried removing
> > libstdc++.la, per the aspell README, to no avail (same result).
> 
> I believe that this is a libtool problem.  You might want to to the libtool 
> people.  I have tried myself with no luck.  I even upgraded to the latest 
> version of libtool, no change.

It turns out that libtool needs the -no-undefined flag.  Try running 
configure with:

  ./configure LDFLAGS=-no-undefined ...

You will also need to remove the cygwin hack in common/iostream.hpp.

The next version of Aspell 0.60 should compile cleanly with cygwin 
out-of-the-box.

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