Thanks everyone who has offered help/advice, especially Hub.... This time I got as far as: c++: /Users/jbuell/Documents/abiword/libpng/libpng.a: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [AbiWord] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 But lucky for me I had already built and installed libpng from its source. So I copied the libpng.a from /usr/local/lib to /Users/jbuell/Documents/abiword/libpng and got this: /usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: /Users/jbuell/Documents/abiword/libpng/libpng.a is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it) /usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _DeleteNode /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/ DesktopServicesPriv(master.o) definition of _DeleteNode /Users/jbuell/Documents/abiword/wv/libwv.a(bintree.o) definition of _DeleteNode in section (__TEXT,__text) make[4]: *** [AbiWord] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Okay, maybe I wasn't so lucky. Any suggestions? -John
