Across Lite for F12 32-bit, an i686 vs i386 issue?

[Joel Gomberg]

On 11/29/2009 05:41 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> My name is Patrick and I'm a crossword puzzle addict.
>
> The NYT publishes its puzzles in Across Lite format, and there's a
> proprietary app (acrossl) which runs on Linux. Unfortunately it's
> getting really old and is binary-only. It worked under F11 but now the
> app gets a segfault on my netbook (though oddly it works fine on my
> 64-bit desktop, also on F12).
>
> Since I'm on the road for 2 months I'm starting to get withdrawal
> symptoms :-) F12 32-bit code is now compiled for the i686 and both the
> app and the old compat libraries are i386 (not all of them have been
> updated for F12). Could this be the problem?
>
> I'm also willing to try other Across Lite apps, but I've never come
> across a free one that was half-way decent.

Hey, Patrick, I feel your pain.  Fortunately, xword is a good open source 
solution.  You can find a Fedora srpm at:

http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~eskin/xword/xword-1.0-4.fc9.src.rpm

Or you can download the source:

http://x-word.org/xword-1.0.tar.gz


-- 
Joel