I believe it's worthwhile to make this known to the guix reviewers community
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-devel/2017-03/msg00003.html

Hope this helps

Ciao ! :-)


2017-03-30 13:57 GMT+02:00 Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> > Thanks for the patch.  I’ve modified the package like this:
> >
> > [...]
> >     (inputs
> >      `(("enchant" ,enchant)
> >        ("iso-codes" ,iso-codes)
> >        ("gtk+" ,gtk+)
> >        ("glib" ,glib)))
> >     (native-inputs
> >      `(("glib" ,glib "bin")
> >        ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
> >        ("xmllint" ,libxml2)
> >
> >        ;; For tests.
> >        ("xorg-server" ,xorg-server)
> >        ("aspell-dict-en" ,aspell-dict-en)))
>
> Just for reference, for when we solve the dictionary issue:
>
> While experimenting with this package and (unsuccessfully) trying to get
> it to find aspell dictionaries, I also noticed we could add the
> following native inputs:
>
> +       ("docbook-xsl" ,docbook-xsl)
> +       ("gobject-introspection" ,gobject-introspection)
> +       ("gtk-doc" ,gtk-doc)
> +       ("vala" ,vala)
>         ("glib" ,glib "bin")
>         ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
>         ("xmllint" ,libxml2)
>         ("xorg-server" ,xorg-server)))
>
> and the following configure flag to build docs:
>
> +       #:configure-flags '("--enable-gtk-doc")
>
> I'm not really familiar with the gobject system, but I suppose
> generating the bindings is useful? :)
>
> Thomas
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