while trying to emerge gaim, it fails complaining that /usr/lib/libpspell.la cannot be found. emerge -s pspell tells me there no such package, so i have to do some googling to guess what provides it. I eventually realized i had to emerge aspell and then had to emerge aspell-en. Now gaim emerges successfully. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. ensure that aspell is not installed (maybe ispell too, don't know) 2. emerge net-aim/gaim-0.70-r2 Actual Results: compilation fails complaining that /usr/lib/libpspell.la cannot be found. since Expected Results: emerge aspell automatically, and maybe force you to install a dictionary before allowing emerge of gaim. Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gaming-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gaming-r3 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="oss avi crypt foomaticdb kde libg++ mad mikmod nls pdflib spell svga gdbm berkdb slang gpm tcpd pam perl esd qt motif x86 alsa apm -arts cdr cups curl dga emacs emacs-w3 encode gif gnome gtk guile imlib jack java jpeg laddca libwww matrox mbox memlimit mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl ppds png python quicktime readline scanner sdl sse ssl tk truetype usb wxwindows X xml xml2 xmms xv zeo zlib"
I ran into the exact same issue with gaim-0.70-r2. The ebuild for gaim has: spell? ( >=app-text/gtkspell-2.0.2 ) Perhaps it should have aspell included as well? gtkspell does get auto merged, but apparently it doesn't have aspell as a dependancy either.
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you probably had aspell on your system at some point and then unmerged it later ... that means if you emerged stuff while having aspell on your system, they would have linked against them and thus caused this error ... grep for 'libpspell' in /usr/lib/*.la and re-emerge any packages that own the .la files found
can someone check for me what happens if you do "emerge -D gaim" instead?
I removed aspell and aspell-en and gaim re-installed fine with USE=spell. Granted it won't highlight misspelled words but it doesn't overtly complain about it either. emerge -D gaim doesn't care about aspell either. Just will re-emerge gaim. Similar case when I emerge -D gtkspell.
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SpanKY: I just ran into the same problem on a fresh system...so aspell doesn't need to have been emerged before.
lostlogic do you think having gaim RDEPEND on aspell if USE=spell is a valid option? Although you are right gtkspell should be pulling it in. I'm going to take a look at the gtkspell ebuild.
Just looked and gtkspell-2.0.4-r1 does NOT depend on virtual/aspell-dict. The previous versions do. gtkspell-2.0.4-r1 moved to using enchant for the dictionary. I'm going to see exactly what gaim needs to do the spell checking.
yeah gaim just uses gtkspell, shouldn't be tied to aspell at all.
Hmm that fresh install news is troubling. Can someone provide the EXACT text of the error? This doesn't happen for me.
OK I removed aspell, aspell-en, enchant and gtkspell. Emerging gaim (not -D) will bring in all 4. Found out that enchant depends on virtual/aspell-dict now. gtkspell-2.0.4-r1 is in ~x86. Steven what versions of these pieces of software do you have installed?
I did the install of friends machine over the weekend. The whole system was 'emerge sync' and all packages were emerged to most recent stable version. Gaim quit with the compile error. Got the hint to emerge aspell and then it worked.
Steven was enchant installed on those systems? gaim => gtkspell => enchant => aspell-en => aspell is how the dependencies should be working. Can you verify which one(s) were missing? Were these systems in stable or unstable?
Steven was enchant installed on those systems? gaim => gtkspell => enchant => aspell-en => aspell is how the dependencies should be working. Can you verify which one(s) were missing? The system was in stable. I don't know if enchant was installed on the system, but I can tell you that I tried nearly all the ebuilds available for gaim and they were all failing, which I suppose would point to an external dependency. I went ahead and emerge'd gaim on a server I have that is emerge sync'd to the current stable. Gaim emerged fine...
Well lostlogic and I both agree that adding aspell directly to gaim DEPENDS is NOT the right way to do it. It definitely sounds like the dependency chain is breaking outside of gaim's control. I'd like to see someone recreate this and identify what pieces of the puzzle are missing.
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Had same problem, worked for me after emerging aspell.
Does this list any aspell items: emerge -pe gtkspell | grep aspell
Also Steve B: are you in stable (x86) or untested (~x86)? I have yet to be able to duplicate this.
I suspect that the problem might lie in the what is installed with the LiveCD. Can you guys that had this problem tell me what stages you installed from, and what versions of the following software were on that stage: aspell, enchant, gtkspell, and gaim. Also if you were in ARCH or ~ARCH (x86 or ~x86).
After almost helping a user on IRC (he got disconned), I'm 90% certain that this problem has to do with the setup on the stage tarballs or Live CDs and x86 vs ~x86. What I need is someone doing a new install to test with x86 and ~x86.
I've been doing some studying of gtkspell for future work I'll be doing, and I'm 100% AGAINST adding aspell as a dep of gaim, especially since future versions of gtkspell won't need aspell directly. gaim should only need gtkspell. If aspell is missing then I think that this is a bug for gtkspell, not gaim. CCing the gnome team who manages gtkspell to see what they think.
we agree, aspell should not be a dep of gaim. gtkspell is not directly depending on aspell anymore and even if it was : it is a gtkspell dep, not gaim. I think this might be a dupe of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41019 , which i cannot explain from just looking at the deps. So i asked the portage devs to investigate, but nothing so far.
I'm going to go ahead and mark this as dupe since the symptoms are eerily similar. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41019 ***
*** Bug 49903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
