On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Joe Laffey wrote:

> I'm trying to install ispell from the packagage distribution.
> 
> When I try to make it I am told:
> 
> you need to install /usr/share/dict/words from the 'dict' distribution
> first
> *** Error code 1
> 
> I can't find this "dict" distribution. Anyone know where this is?

You're compiling from the pkgsrc, aren't you?

I suspect that the message is from ispell's script, with is talking about
a non-NetBSD distribution.

You should have a /usr/share/dict/words, which should be hard linked to
/usr/share/dict/web2. They are in the misc distribution, and contain the
words from a version of Webster's dictionary.

Take care,

Bill