> Hello,
>
> I am able to fetch and make editors/abiword, but when I try to install
> it, I get the following error messages.  When I try to launch the
> program, I am told 'Shared object "libxml2.so.8" not found'.  I run
> NetBSD-1.6.1 on i386.
>
> - Andy Ball

Andy,

It looks like AbiWord didn't link at all.
What is the date of your pkgsrc tree?

Kind regards,
Adam