0

I am neophyte on Mac especially on terminal. Though I've read lots of materials, I am still very confused and do not know what I should do.

I need to use aspell on MAC. I followed a tutorial (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling) to install it and I've installed Xcode and gcc. In one step, it required me to "type ./configure, followed by ". I did it, but terminal showed:

-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

This webpage (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1849525) showed the configure in under "/usr/local/src/configure" but when I cd to this directory I found I do not have the /src/ folder. 

/usr/local$ ls
CODEOFCONDUCT.md  README.md         include/          opt/
CONTRIBUTING.md   SUPPORTERS.md     info/             share/
Cellar/           bin/              lib/
LICENSE.txt       etc/              libexec/
Library/          git/              man/

What show I do? How can I use the ./configure?

Thank you so much.

user3552733
  • 37
  • 1
  • 9

2 Answers2

2

You likely don't have the command line development tools installed.

Try

xcode-select --install

It also looks like you have homebrew installed. I believe that there is a formula for aspell, so you can try

brew install aspell

jrminter
  • 318
  • 2
  • 7
  • I tried to install command line, but I did not find in in the preference/download under the Xcode 5.1.1 on OS X 10.9. There is only IOS6.1 Simulator in "Components" – user3552733 Jul 21 '14 at 21:05
  • One is not **supposed** to have to install the full XCode to get the command line tools. However, you can get it as a free download from the App store. The way it is supposed to work is that if you type a command that requires the command line tools (like `gcc`) it is **supposed** to prompt you to download them. Let us know how it works out. – jrminter Jul 21 '14 at 22:26
  • I download the Xcode from the apple store and installed it. It is good. But I found as I am installing ASPELL, after `$ make $ make install`, terminal shows some error (18 errors and 19 errors respectively.) Is it normal? Or should I install some other packages and setting my environment? – user3552733 Jul 21 '14 at 22:38
  • That is why I suggested homebrew. The formulas have been tuned with the appropriate parameters for ./configure. (There are patches for `aspell.h`) Try `brew install aspell` It installed without errors on my MacBook Pro with Mavericks. – jrminter Jul 22 '14 at 00:05
  • Yes, it works well. I found dictionaries of aspell cannot install by `brew install aspell --lang=en` but the traditional way works well. Anyway I've installed it now. Thank you for all your help and I do appreciate it. Regards – user3552733 Jul 22 '14 at 20:40
0

The aspell-0.60.6.1 tarball does have a configure script inside its own source tree (so it is located at aspell-0.60.6.1/configure). So you should start with something like (to do outside of /usr/local/, for example in your $HOME/freesoftsource/ directory if you have one, or maybe even simply in your $HOME if you dare).

  wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.6.1.tar.gz
  tar xzvf aspell-0.60.6.1.tar.gz
  cd aspell-0.60.6.1
  ./configure

You may want to add some options to the ./configure above.

You should read aspell installing instructions

N.B. As with most GNU software using configure, the location of the source tree (extracted from the source tar archive as above) does not matter much.

Basile Starynkevitch
  • 223,805
  • 18
  • 296
  • 547