Bug 25646 – ispell not finding /usr/share/dict/words

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Leon Brocard 2003-07-31 10:07:53 UTC]

When I try to emerge ispell, it fails with an error about not finding
/usr/share/dict/words

I don't have one, so some depency may be wrong:
bash-2.05b# ls /usr/share/dict/
README  connectives  extra.words  propernames  web2  web2a



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge ispell
2.
3.

Actual Results:  

make[4]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/ispell-3.2.06-r5/work/ispell-3.2.06/languages/american'
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/share/dict/words', needed by
`english.med+'.  Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/ispell-3.2.06-r5/work/ispell-3.2.06/languages/american'
make[3]: *** [english.med+] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/ispell-3.2.06-r5/work/ispell-3.2.06/languages/american'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/ispell-3.2.06-r5/work/ispell-3.2.06/languages/american'
+ exit 1
make[1]: *** [language-subdirs] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ispell-3.2.06-r5/work/ispell-3.2.06'
make: *** [all-languages] Error 2

!!! ERROR: app-text/ispell-3.2.06-r5 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 38, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)


Expected Results:  
Installed correctly.

Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww
mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv
zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java guile mysql sdl
gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis motif opengl mozilla X gtk
gnome kde qt innodb"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Bryan Østergaard (RETIRED) 2003-08-02 16:35:06 UTC]

Created attachment 15401 [details]
New ebuild

Fixed ebuild by adding sys-apps/miscfiles to DEPEND. sys-apps/miscfiles
includes /usr/share/dict/words

[Comment 2 Mårten Svantesson 2003-08-05 06:08:55 UTC]

The problem with the patch is that it doesn't take in account bug 8992. Please take a look at bug 8992, comment 2.

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-09-09 03:39:14 UTC]

fixed in portage