I wanted to add spell-checking to my emacs install on the Macbook Pro. Emacs was installed from the extremely helpful emacs for mac osx site.
N.B I'd had to upgrade emacs to a latest nightly build to overcome two problems since upgrading to Mavericks:
I downloaded ispell 3.3.02, (somewhat disheartened to learn it was
last updated in 2005) and attempted to compile it. A number of
errors prevented the build, all related to getline
in
correct.c
. Looks like OSX has introduced it's own getline
at some point in the last eight years. The error was:
correct.c:248:15: error: static declaration of 'getline' follows non-static declaration static char * getline P ((char * buf, int bufsize)); ^ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/stdio.h:440:9: note: previous declaration is here ssize_t getline(char ** __restrict, size_t * __restrict, FILE * __restri... ^
I renamed the ispell getline
in correct.c
to
is_getline
and all was well.