I've crafted some code from you suggestion of dlcompat, but now I hit the problem that I can't even get abiword to build the plugins on OS X. The readme says to run nextgen.sh, but that clearly has no OS X knowledge because it asks for libtoolize, which is glibtoolize on OS X. I added the 'g' and it just complains:
glibtoolize -f -c You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4' How are you building plugins on OSX? Or are you?
