[Aspell-user] Detecting Aspell and dictionary

[Bill Moseley]

I'm wondering about the best way to detect if libaspell is installed
and that a specific dictionary is available.

I author the Perl module Text::Aspell that links with libaspell.  To
install the module the user needs libaspell, of course, but also I
require that a specific dictionary is installed so that the test
scripts can do actual word lookups.  But, it would be nice to catch
the lack of dictionary before getting to the test scripts (i.e. when
running Makefile.PL).

aspell dicts will list dictionaries, but I assume libaspell could be
installed and not the aspell binary.

Any suggestions?





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