Problems installing wvWare on Solaris system [Long]

I'm trying to install wvWare as a Microsoft .doc parser (in relation to
another application, no abiword), and I am specifically trying to
install it as a local install for a non-root user.

The platform is a Sun Sparc unit, running Solaris 5.8.

I have determined that wvWare has a collection of Dependencies:
wvWare -+- libgsf --- glib -+- freetype2
         | +- libxml2
         + pkg-conf --- mktemp
(I'm ignoring libwmf for now)

I have successfully compiled and installed all the sources (each with a
"--prefix=$HOME/local" switch, naturally).

I have installed the software, but it is not running "correctly" - When
I try to actually *parse* a .doc file, the system fails trying to access
an iconv converter file:
----- start extract ----
access("/usr/lib/iconv/geniconvtbl/binarytables/UCS-2LE%UCS-2LE.bt", 4)/
Err#2 ENOENT
access("/usr/lib/iconv/UCS-2LE%UCS-2LE.so", 4) Err#2 ENOENT
open("/usr/lib/iconv/alias", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
access("/usr/lib/iconv/geniconvtbl/binarytables/UCS-2-LE%UCS-2-LE.bt",/
4) Err#2 ENOENT
access("/usr/lib/iconv/UCS-2-LE%UCS-2-LE.so", 4) Err#2 ENOENT
open("/usr/lib/iconv/alias", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
access("/usr/lib/iconv/geniconvtbl/binarytables/UNICODELITTLE%UNICODELITTLE.bt",/
4) Err#2 ENOENT
access("/usr/lib/iconv/UNICODELITTLE%UNICODELITTLE.so", 4) Err#2 ENOENT
open("/usr/lib/iconv/alias", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
access("/usr/lib/iconv/geniconvtbl/binarytables/UTF-16LE%UTF-16LE.bt",/
4) Err#2 ENOENT
access("/usr/lib/iconv/UTF-16LE%UTF-16LE.so", 4) Err#2 ENOENT
open("/usr/lib/iconv/alias", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
access("/usr/lib/iconv/geniconvtbl/binarytables/UTF-16-LE%UTF-16-LE.bt",/
4) Err#2 ENOENT
access("/usr/lib/iconv/UTF-16-LE%UTF-16-LE.so", 4) Err#2 ENOENT
open("/usr/lib/iconv/alias", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
----- end extract ----
I can confirm that these files do not exist on my system (though many
others do)

wvWare, according to it's website
(http://wvware.sourceforge.net/index.html) uses glib rather than iconv.

I have tried to reinstall the various sources with a "--without-iconv"
option (not that it's actually listed in any of the ./configure --help
option *chuckle*)

Now, both glib & libgsf pick up the base install of iconv:

---- from glib ./configure ---
checking for iconv_open... yes
[snip]
checking Whether to cache iconv descriptors... yes

---- from libgsf ./configure ---
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv

I have tested wvWare on my linux box (Redhat FC4) - both as a system
install, and a local install... and it works fine.
I've also tried to install on a slightly older Sun system (still running
solaris 5.8) and get the same problem

(phew - I said this was long....)

*** SUMMERY ***
Has anyone got wvWare running on a solaris box, as a non-root user, and
can they remember how they did it?
If so, can you tell me?

thanks...

-- 
Ian Stuart.
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.
http://edina.ac.uk/
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