Modify WordGrinder's recipe to allow it to find dictionaries.
Haiku is a UNIX-like open source operating system that provides a tool called haikuporter to build 3rd party open source software.
A recipe in Haiku is a text file that the haikuporter tool reads in order to build open source software and create packages for it. The collection of recipes that may be built by haikuporter is called HaikuPorts.
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The goal of this task is to modify a recipe for WordGrinder, a terminal based word processor.
This program's homepage is: http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/
It's sources can be browsed on GitHub: https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder
The recipe is already in haikuports at haikuports/app-text/wordgrinder/.
The program comes with a couple of dictionaries but they are not being used in the recipe.
The author, David Given, has kindly provided a few hints in this message. You will need to investigate this topic and improve the recipe to allow WordGrinder to either use the system dictionaries or the ones provided by the program.
Important: please read the generic instructions for "recipe" tasks, as we have a lot of these: https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/GoogleCodeInTaskRecipe
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