I do not have use/local/src/ on Mac, what should I do?

I am neophyte on Mac especially on terminal. Though I've read lots of materials, I am still very confused and do not know what I should do.

I need to use aspell on MAC. I followed a tutorial (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling) to install it and I've installed Xcode and gcc. In one step, it required me to "type ./configure, followed by ". I did it, but terminal showed:

-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

This webpage (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1849525) showed the configure in under "/usr/local/src/configure" but when I cd to this directory I found I do not have the /src/ folder.

/usr/local$ ls
CODEOFCONDUCT.md  README.md         include/          opt/
CONTRIBUTING.md   SUPPORTERS.md     info/             share/
Cellar/           bin/              lib/
LICENSE.txt       etc/              libexec/
Library/          git/              man/

What show I do? How can I use the ./configure?

Thank you so much.

Solution

The aspell-0.60.6.1 tarball does have a configure script inside its own source tree (so it is located at aspell-0.60.6.1/configure). So you should start with something like (to do outside of /usr/local/, for example in your $HOME/freesoftsource/ directory if you have one, or maybe even simply in your $HOME if you dare).

  wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.6.1.tar.gz
  tar xzvf aspell-0.60.6.1.tar.gz
  cd aspell-0.60.6.1
  ./configure

You may want to add some options to the ./configure above.

You should read aspell installing instructions

^{N.B. As with most GNU software using configure, the location of the source tree (extracted from the source tar archive as above) does not matter much.}