Subject: Re: abiword 0.9.1 and latest cvs broken on alpha
From: Henry House (hajhouse@houseag.com)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 18:22:42 CDT
Dom Lachowicz (dominicl@seas.upenn.edu) wrote:
>I don't personally know of anyone else running Abi on Alpha. But this doesn't
>look like an "alpha" problem to me, but rather an XML parser problem. I'm
>willing to bet you a nickel that you've compiled and linked against libxml2
>instead of expat. There was a patch sent a few days ago which supposedly fixes
>the libxml2 support in our preferences parser, but the patch didn't apply for
>me so I never committed it.
>
>So, my suggestion to you would be to recompile and relink Abi against expat
>(cvs co expat) which may or may not require you specifically specifying that
>you want to use expat (via a configure --enable option). I'll bug someone to
>fix the libxml2 support sometime soon, but it's not a high priority of mine.
Yes, that worked! Thanks! Abiword now compiles and runs sucessfully. The only
problem is that ispell doesn't work ('Illegal format hash table' is printed
to the console). I'll see if I can get pspell to work....
I admit that I'm not wid about the new generic splash screen. Abi the Ant was
much more cute ;-)
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