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

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 13:41:26 +0000,
  Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?

The app being compiled for i386 shouldn't be an issue. Having old compatibility
libraries instead of up to date ones might be. Are the compatibility libraries
you are using not in F12? I don't remember seeing any get dropped, but I might
not be using the same ones you are. I am using iHEAT at work, which was built
a while ago and needs some compatibility libraries to work. It runs pretty
well on F12.