Step 2: Download fribidi-0.10.4.tar.gz from SourceForge to the current directory (abicocoa), then:

The last bit of source you'll need from AbiWord's cvs is link-grammar: Things get a little complicated already because one of the subdirectories needs to be replaced, so: Basically, open a new shell using Terminal.app, and: Step 1: Get the AbiWord sources from cvs. For Step 3 you will also need to be an administrator. You will need to be using at least OS X 10.3. I have not had time to encrypt these, so please do not read any further until you have signed a confidentiality agreement. Temporarily, therefore, build instructions are available here. The server has been taken offline for forensic analysis. I believe this to be the act of an emerging world-wide internet conspiracy focussed on disrupting my business and I am considering legal action against Mr John 'l33t' Smith & co. on Saturday mornings.ĭistressingly, crackers broke into the server this morning (27th August, 2005) and replaced the AbiWord build documentation with an advert for something called Open Office. Such documentation has always existed, but for security reasons it has been encrypted and stored on dial-up server in Serbia, from which it can (or, rather, could) be downloaded from a password-protected directory between midnight and 3 a.m. People keep asking, 'How do I build AbiWord?' Or, more usually, 'I can't build AbiWord!' Usually these outbursts are followed by demands for build documentation.

Get libxml2 for mac