Re: [Aspell-user] Help, Perl module not happy when called

[Bill Moseley]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:03:59AM -0800, Flying In LA wrote:

Been a while since I ventured into this mailbox, sorry.


> perl: relocation error:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Text/Aspell/Aspell.so:
> undefined symbol: new_aspell_config

That normally means you are running code that was compiled on a
different version of perl.  Are you mixing packaged binaries with code
built from source?

Below I included a complete build session for Aspell and the Perl module, if
you want to start from scratch.

> Here is the CGI script, ANY help would be appreciated:

Ok:

> #!/usr/bin/perl 
> 
> use Text::Aspell;

use strict;
use warnings;


> my ($identifier, $word, @suggestions, $i, $l, %input, $speller);

Localize your variables where they are used.


> 
> # Create speller object and set options
> $speller = Text::Aspell->new;
> $speller->set_option('lang','en_US');
> $speller->set_option('sug-mode','fast');
> $speller->set_option('local-data-dir','/usr/lib/aspell/');

You should not need to set local-data-dir in most cases, I'd think.


> 
> # Parse CGI input
> parseInput();

use CGI;  # or any of the other modules that do this


> 
> # Send header
> print "Content-type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8\n\n";

Javascript?


Here's my session:

$ mkdir aspell
$ cd aspell
$ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.4.tar.gz
$ tar zxf aspell-0.60.4.tar.gz
$ cd aspell-0.60.4
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/aspell && make && make install
$ cd ..
$ export PATH=$(pwd)/bin:$PATH
$ which aspell
/home/moseley/aspell/bin/aspell

$ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2
$ cd aspell6-en-6.0-0
$ ./configure 
Finding Dictionary file location ... /home/moseley/aspell/lib/aspell-0.60
Finding Data file location ... /home/moseley/aspell/lib/aspell-0.60
$ make && make install
$ cd ..

$ aspell --version
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.4)

$ aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.4)
aspelll
& aspelll 6 0: Aspell, Ispell, spell, Aspell's, Ascella, Ispell's



$ wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/H/HA/HANK/Text-Aspell-0.05.tar.gz
$ tar zxf Text-Aspell-0.05.tar.gz
$ cd Text-Aspell-0.05
$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/aspell \
> CCFLAGS=-I$HOME/aspell/include \
> LIBS="-L$HOME/aspell/lib -laspell

$ make && make test && make install

$cd ..

# Check that the perl module linked to my local copy of libaspell.

$ ldd lib/perl/5.8.7/auto/Text/Aspell/Aspell.so  | grep aspell
        libaspell.so.15 => /home/moseley/aspell/lib/libaspell.so.15 (0x4000c000)

$ cat spell.pl

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use Text::Aspell;
    use strict;
    use warnings;

    my $speller = Text::Aspell->new or die "no speller";

    $speller->set_option('lang','en_US');
    $speller->set_option('sug-mode','fast');

    my $word = shift or die "no word";

    if ( $speller->check( $word ) ) {
        print "$word was found\n";
        exit;
    }

    print "$word : ", join( ', ', $speller->suggest( $word ) ), "\n";


$ perl spell.pl aspelll
aspelll : Aspell, Ispell, spell, Aspell's, Ascella, Ispell's


-- 
Bill Moseley
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