bug#25836: [aspell-devel] Honoring ‘ASPELL_CONF’ in libaspell

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Kevin,

Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> skribis:

> For compiled in defaults there is some support for expansion, see
> Config::get_default() in common/config.cpp.  In particular the
> following should work: "<$HOME|.>/.guix-profile/lib/aspell. Due to the
> way the code is written an alternative must always be given, in
> particular "<$HOME>/.guix-profile/lib/aspell" is unlikely to work.
> You could also use: "<home-dir>/.guix-profile/lib/aspell".  Note that
> the expansion is only for compiled in defaults, if the value is
> manually set, then there is no expansion.
>
> When you do "aspell --config" it will print the defaults and then also
> what it expands to.

Thanks for the tips.  I ended up using something similar to what you
suggest:

  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=6d35b1c99c15f87a30fdf1a38c88db844b3e8303

Ludo’.