Anyway, the hash table files for the dictionaries are apparently in
little endian byte order:
Illegal format hash table /usr/local/AbiSuite/dictionary/american.hash - expected magic 0x9602, got 0x296
Also, I had to turn off building a static version of AbiWord because
the C run-time library is not available in non-shared form.
This is all under Irix 6.3 and egcs 1.1.2.
Peace,
Michael