#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.1

### Chapter 9. General Libraries

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# gspell-1.12.2

## Introduction to gspell

The gspell package provides a flexible API to add spell checking to a GTK+ application.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gspell/1.12/gspell-1.12.2.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: f1e5f02695aee20ba543352889c28ff5

- Download size: 436 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 11 MB (with tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with tests)

### gspell Dependencies

#### Required

enchant-2.6.7, ICU-74.2, and GTK+-3.24.41

#### Optional

gobject-introspection-1.78.1, GTK-Doc-1.33.2, Vala-0.56.14, and Valgrind-3.22.0

## Installation of gspell

Install gspell by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
    make

To test the results, issue: make check. The tests must be run in an X session. One test, test-checker, is known to fail if the external package Hunspell is not installed.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

The libtool archive file from this package is referring to the libraries from ICU-74.2. Such a reference may cause packages depending on this package to be unnecessary linked against the ICU libraries and increase the burden to rebuild packages if ICU is updated to a new major version. As we've explained in Libtool archive (.la) files, these libtool archive files are unneeded anyway. So as the `root` user, remove the libtool archive file now:

    rm -v /usr/lib/libgspell-1.la

## Contents

Installed Programs: gspell-app1
Installed Libraries: libgspell-1.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gspell-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gspell-1.0

### Short Descriptions

gspell-app1 | checks the spelling of a text entered in a window
`libgspell-1.so` | is the gspell API library

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