Re: [Aspell-user] command line --prefix option doesn't work?

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Byron Whitlock wrote:

> We are releasing aspell with an application.
> 
> I configured aspell with --PREFIX=/another/path/to/aspell
> 
> After installing dictionaries  it works great on that machine.
> 
> However when my installer installs the apsell files to a different directory
> on another machine, aspell gives some strange errors.
> 
> I pass valid values to --prefix, --data-dir, --dict-dir, -local-data-dir, 
> --word-list-path ,--conf-dir and --home-dir
> on the aspell command line yet I still get the following error.
> 
> /usr/local/lm_oracle/lm_85d_88beta/tclweb/bin/aspell/bin/aspell --lang=en_US 
> --prefix=/usr/local/lm_oracle/lm_85d_88beta/tclweb/bin/aspell 
> --data-dir="/usr/local/lm_oracle/lm_85d_88beta/tclweb/bin/aspell/lib/aspell-0.60"
>  
> --dict-dir="/usr/local/lm_oracle/lm_85d_88beta/tclweb/bin/aspell/lib/aspell-0.60"
>  config
> Error: The encoding "iso-8859-1" is not known. This could also mean that the 
> file 
> "/opt/lyris/listmanager/dist/tclweb/bin/aspell/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-1.cmap"
>  could not be opened for reading or does not exist.
> 
> The directory it is referencing (/opt/lyris/lis...) is the original 
> "configure" prefix directory from the build machine.
> 
> Shouldn't aspell pick up the .cmap file relative to --prefix from the cmd 
> line? (yes the file is there)
> 

Yes.  What version of Aspell are you using?  Use "aspell --version".

-- 
http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org