Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

[Christopher Menzel]

Gentle LyX folk:

I have compiled LyX 2.4-RC4 under Kali Linux and it works great but I am unable to spellcheck. Tools → Spellchecker is greyed out and LyX sees no spellchecker engine under Preferences → Spellchecker. Hunspell and the English dictionary are of course installed. I found an old thread saying that Hunspell support had to be explicitly included at configure time, but I believe Hunspell is now built in. At any rate, the old “—use-hunspell” option is not recognized. Spellchecking via Hunspell works fine in the MacOS version of RC4.

Help/explanations much appreciated! Apologies if I’ve missed a relevant discussion.

Chris Menzel