ispell.el doesn't work any more

[Stefan Monnier]

Now whenever I try to run flyspell-mode (which I use pretty much
everywhere), I get the following backtrace:

Indeed, my aspell is older than 0.60, but it worked just fine until now.
It's not like Fedora Core 2 is ancient.  It's not the latest and greatest,
but it should definitely be among the systems that we still support.


        Stefan


Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "aspell version 0.60 or greater is 
required")
  signal(error ("aspell version 0.60 or greater is required"))
  error("aspell version 0.60 or greater is required")
  ispell-check-version()
  ispell-init-process()
  ispell-buffer-local-words()
  ispell-accept-buffer-local-defs()
  flyspell-accept-buffer-local-defs()
  flyspell-mode-on()
  flyspell-mode(1)
  (if (and (fboundp ...) (fboundp ...) (executable-find "ispell")) 
(flyspell-mode 1))
  sm-text-mode-hook()
  run-hooks(text-mode-hook message-mode-hook)
  apply(run-hooks (text-mode-hook message-mode-hook))
  run-mode-hooks(message-mode-hook)
  message-mode()
  message-pop-to-buffer("*mail to address@hidden")
  message-mail("address@hidden")
  gnus-post-news(post "nnimap+diro:emacs" nil nil nil nil nil)
  gnus-group-post-news((4))
  call-interactively(gnus-group-post-news nil nil)