aspell

Compilation (V0.60.6.1)

AIX

1. gen/static_filters.src.cpp is built with empty static arrays. To avoid this, in modules/filter/nroff-filter.info and modules/filter/url-filter.info add a dummy entry

      OPTION ignore
      TYPE list
      DESCRIPTION   dummy
      DEFAULT dummy
      ENDOPTION
   

   Feel free to insert something more useful.
2. Some definitions in interfaces/cc/aspell.h don't play well with those in common/errors.hpp. As a workaround disable them for C++ compilation:

      #ifndef __cplusplus
      extern const struct AspellErrorInfo * const aerror_other;
      ...
      extern const struct AspellErrorInfo * const   aerror_invalid_expression;
      #endif
   

3. More grief is caused by the ncurses library used for the full screen mode, including UTF-8 support. It doesn't seem properly accounted for in the build procedure, which causes compilation of prog/check_funs.cpp to fail. Thus in Makefile.in add the path to the ncurses include files:

      AM_CPPFLAGS = -I${srcdir}/gen -I${srcdir}/common \
   	   -I${srcdir}/interfaces/cc/ \
   	   -I${srcdir}/modules/speller/default/ $(CURSES_INCLUDE) $(CURSES_INCLUDE)/ncursesw \
   

   Moreover, the configure/build procedure assumes a header file curses.h, which might "attract" an inappropriate version, for example /usr/include/curses.h. As a workaround I took the freedom to modify the ncurses installation:

      cd /bio/local/ncurses-5.9/include/ncursesw
      ln -s ncurses.h curses.h
   

4. Omit -D_LARGE_FILES because it can't cope with it.

   make distclean
               # AIX 5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1, C 6/12.0/12.0/12.0
   ./configure --prefix=/tmp/aspell-0.60.6.1
               CC=cc CPPFLAGS="-D_THREAD_SAFE" CFLAGS="-O2"
               CXX=xlC CXXFLAGS="-D_THREAD_SAFE" CXXFLAGS="-O2"
               --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-rpath
               --enable-compile-in-filters
               --with-libintl-prefix=/bio/local/gettext-0.17
               --enable-curses-include=/bio/local/ncurses-5.9/include
               --enable-curses="-L/bio/local/ncurses-5.9/lib -lncursesw"
   make 
   make install