hehe :) slower machines ? hehe :) I just went from a 486/100 16MB to a 
K6 II 333 32MB a few months ago, but I like to add more RAM, how did you
know that ? :-) 
> > and since I'm on the subject of SuSE 6.1, I really like to know whether
> > owners of the official SuSE 6.1 have problems reading word97-doc's.
> 
> What errors are you getting?  If you build AbiWord yourself, you can
> enable debug messages ("export ABI_OPT_DEBUG=1 ; make") to see
I'll do that (again:).
> all the things the Word importer tries when decoding it.  It's
> possible it just says "this is a Word 95 document" and quits.  The
> importer right now only does Word 97.
I tried the word97-testfile from the abi-0.5.5 source.
and it says something like "this is a plain text file".
> > SuSE 6.1-eval. *still* refuses to read them here (though I must admit that
> > I've used libstdc++.so.2.8 from Redhat 5.2 to get it running, I'll try to
> > find a SuSE 6.1 one, if any.).
> 
> We really shouldn't need libstdc++.so.2.8 to run the binary.  If it's
> in one of the packages as a dependency, it's a bug in the package.
so, it is, SuSE 6.1-eval complained about it.
> If it were GCC needing the .a to compile, that might be different (then 
> it's a bug in the code, we shouldn't need libstdc++ at all).
> A quick ldd shows:
> 
> sterwill@lister [bin] ldd AbiWord_d 
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40011000)
>         libpng.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x40014000)
>         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4003c000)
>         libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x4004c000)
>         libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40164000)
>         libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0
> (0x40195000)
>         libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x40199000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401bb000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401c7000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4026a000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40283000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
very very strange...
[root@onderste /root]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/X11/AbiWord_d
abisuite-0.7.0-1
[root@onderste /root]# ldd /usr/bin/X11/AbiWord_d
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40008000)
        libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x4000b000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40025000)
        libstdc++.so.2.8 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 (0x40034000)
        libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x40075000)
        libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40197000)
        libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x401c9000)
        libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x401cc000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401ee000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401fa000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4029d000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402b6000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2aaaa000)
[root@onderste /root]# rpm -V abisuite
[root@onderste /root]#
libstdc++.so.2.8 is there again ... 8-?
> > I also tried building AbiWord on SuSE 5.3-eval and Caldera OpenLinux 1.3,
> > but both of them don't support glibc, so I've rejected that idea.
> 
> libc5 machines should work fine.  My machine at home is running 
hmmm, strange, there was a *clear* error about GLIBC from the build on both
of them, of course I can reproduce it (I should have saved the log).
> libc 5.4.38 on some old Slackware variant.  I can build and run AbiWord 
Slackware is a little bit different, 3.6 and 4.0 are still libc5 according
to the FAQ on www.slackware.org (by accident I just read it tonight), 
but are said to have support for glibc to run (and build ??).
It must be a really old Slackware then. What Slackware-version is it ?
> fine, but my compiler (EGCS 1.1.2) doesn't seem to build libpng
> correctly
> so documents with PNG images segfault.  It's a problem with libpng at
> all 
> levels (gimp, imlib, xv all don't work).   Maybe it's my C library
> and not my compiler... don't know, and will probably reformat soon
> enough.
hmmm, that's on Debian I guess ?
Redhat 5.2: egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)
maybe too bleeding-edge ? ;-)
-- - greetings, Albert - -- I doubt, therefore I might be.