compiling PHP with aspell support
I was banging my head against a brick wall trying to get aspell support working with PHP.
The php module make stage kept failing with errors like:
ld: ext/pspell/pspell.o illegal reference to symbol: _aspell_error_number defined in indirectly referenced dynamic library /usr/local/lib/libaspell.15.dylib
Turns out this is a known bug to do with aspell and php under OS X.
The fix is quite simple.
Before you attempt to run “./configure –whatever” for php, edit the 'configure' file inside the php source folder, and look for the line:
LIBS="-lpspell $LIBS
Change it so that it looks like:
LIBS="-laspell -lpspell $LIBS"
and bob's your uncle.