[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs and aspell

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha Jorg and Jochen,

Yes, Jochen correctly diagnosed the problem.  I need to be more  
attentive to syncing the macport database.

Thanks to both of you.  It would have been difficult to figure this  
out on my own.

Tom

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On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Jochen Küpper wrote:

> On 29.07.2008, at 23:47, Jörg Frauendiener wrote:
>
>>>> this seems to be a problem with the macports version of aspell.
>>>
>>> I do not have this problem with the MacPorts version of aspell --  
>>> and I use it for years... Do you have the latest version installed?
>>>
>>> If appropriate, could you please provide a bug-report at https://trac.macports.org/
>>
>> In fact, I had the same problem as Thomas and I found out about the  
>> possible cause from the macports mailing list. So either this is  
>> already known or it has been solved in the latest version.
>
>
> Well, there is a problem with the latest aspell release itself, but  
> that makes aspell fail regardless of whether you run it from  
> Aquamacs or from the Terminal -- different from what you reported.
>
> Moreover, this *is fixed* in MacPorts by a patch provided by the  
> aspell author...
>
> If you do
>  sudo port sync
>  sudo port upgrade -unf aspell
> it should definitely work.
>
> Please provide a bug-report with MacPorts otherwise!
>
> Greetings,
> Jochen
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