#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.1

### Chapter 9. General Libraries

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# gspell-1.8.4

## 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-11.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gspell/1.8/gspell-1.8.4.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 378dee938c08c24b559953cbcad83942

- Download size: 414 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 13 MB (with tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (using parallelism=4; with tests)

### gspell Dependencies

#### Required

enchant-2.3.2 and GTK+-3.24.31

#### Optional

gobject-introspection-1.70.0, GTK-Doc-1.33.2, ISO Codes-4.9.0, Vala-0.54.7, and Valgrind-3.18.1

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gspell

## Installation of gspell

Install gspell by running the following commands:

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

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

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## 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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