Jerry James <james@xemacs.org>, Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au>

About a week ago, I complained that I could no longer build the text-modes package if I didn't have ispell installed on my system; see http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200312/msg00357.html for details. Since that post was greeted by thunderous silence, I decided to dig in a little. Here's what I found. flyspell.el requires ispell, which in turn invokes this little snippet of code in ispell.el: (defvar ispell-library-path (if (or (not (fboundp 'byte-compiling-files-p)) (not (byte-compiling-files-p))) (check-ispell-version)) "The directory where ispell dictionaries reside.") This code is supposed to check the ispell version and return the ispell library path. It's apparently supposed to be turned off when byte-compiling, but XEmacs has no such function as byte-compiling-files-p (I couldn't find in fsf emacs either, but I didn't look too hard). I was going to add (setq ispell-library-path "/fake") to the compile commmand line in the Makefile, but I couldn't decide what was the best way to do that. I've now decided that was a good thing, as that would be a hack; can somebody tell me what the appropriate way to miss out the call to check-ispell-version is? BTW, Steve, what is the best way to add a form to the compile command line in a package Makefile? Thanks, Vin