Empty DBM Problem: The following is a grep of the Empty DBM issues during the test phase. I noticed that the enidf file that came with Mead was little-endian and and that would cause trouble on a big-endian architecture like the PowerPC. Solution: To fix the missing DBM file try this: There's a script in the bin directory in MEAD called write-idf.pl. You'll need to add "use DB_File" to the script so that it builds a compatible version of the DBM file. Then run: bin/write-idf.pl etc/enidf etc/enidf.txt and bin/write-idf.pl etc/cnidf etc/cnidf.txt