On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:05:05PM +0000, MLH wrote:
> Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > We don't support this in pkgsrc since we decided '/usr/X11R6 is part
> > of the base system, and we do not want additional files there'.
> > Pretty much the same reason we don't install into /usr by default, but
> > into /usr/pkg.
> 
> Should I send-pr textproc/ispell-base for failing to follow this:
> 
> make -f ../english/Makefile 'DBUILD=' VARIANTS=american
> 'EXTRADICT=/usr/share/dict/words' 'SHELLDEBUG=+vx'
> 'AFFIXES=../english/english.aff'  english.med+
> make: don't know how to make /usr/share/dict/words. Stop
> 
> make: stopped in
> /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/ispell-base/work.i386/ispell-3.1/languages/american
> *** Error code 2

It does not want to generate /usr/share/dict/words, but use
it as input -- it seems you're missing misc.tgz -- extract that
and it should be fine.
 Thomas