Hi, Thanks to Bull, I have been able to put my compilation of abiword on AIX on a more limited back burner (though not shelved). For those wanting abiword on AIX, you can get a fairly reasonable working version at: http://www.bull.de/pub/aix432/abi-0.7.13.0.exe The spell checker doesn't work (it's the version with all words, except I believe single letter words designated as mispelled (I may not be able to spell to wel, but I ain't that bad :). Oh, I think the links in /usr/local/bin were wrong as well, but that was easy to fix. However, not leaving well enough along, I decided to try automake, for which I needed some software not generally on AIX 4.3.3. So, I downed the necessary filesets from http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/altlic.html which is the AIX toolbox for Linux applications. This required first installing rpm.rte (using AIX installp), then automake, autoconf, and a few other necessary prerequisites. The installation of rpm.rte installs a number of libraries, linked in /usr/lib to /opt/freeware/lib. Two of these libz.a and libintl.a are incompatible with the BULL AbiWord build: AbiWord& [1] 28134 exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /usr/local/AbiSuite/bin/AbiWord_d because of the following errors: 0509-150 Dependent module /usr/lib/libz.a(shr.o) could not be loaded. 0509-153 File /usr/lib/libz.a is not an archive or the file could not be read properly. [1] Done AbiWord . . . AbiWord& [1] 28144 exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /usr/local/AbiSuite/bin/AbiWord_d because of the following errors: 0509-022 Cannot load module /usr/local/lib/libgtk.a(shr.o). 0509-150 Dependent module /usr/lib/libintl.a(shr.o) could not be loaded. 0509-153 File /usr/lib/libintl.a is not an archive or the file could not be read properly. [1] Done AbiWord TO FIX: First, I linked these to the files in /usr/local/lib, which worked, but of course broke rpm. So then, I simply stuck LIBPATH= export LIBPATH at the top of the script /usr/local/bin/AbiWord (restoring /usr/lib links to /opt/freeware/lib). This also seems to work. I post this because: {1) Perhaps there are some AIX users who want a usable copy of AbiWord, and are unable to compile it themselves. This will provide one more google link to AIX & abiword {2) If someone does what I did, perhaps it will save them a few minutes... (3) Any AIX users who wish to share their efforts, I'ld love to see something. It is nice to keep my fingers off the MSwindows machine. Chris Winne ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
