Subject: AIX library
From: Chris Winne (chris@wru.umt.edu)
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 11:38:23 CDT
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
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