I managed to compile 2.5.2 after compiling dependencies, and then dependencies of the dependencies, and so on
(I've still not bothered copying all the libraries over to actually try running it, though)

I tried to compile from SVN, but configure fails due to a broken sed command somewhere:
config.status: creating libabiword.pc
sed: file ./confstatW14746/subs-4.sed line 41: unterminated `s' command

and line 41 from subs-4.sed:
s,@ALL_PLUGINS@, command collab ots google pdb opml psion applix nroff mathview urldict aiksaurus mht gda bmp loadbindings sdw clarisworks hrtext wpggfx t602 hancom passepartout gdict pdf openxml gimp eml goffice xslfo paint latex grammar babelfish wml jpeg freetranslation docbook wordperfect mif opendocument wmfgfx kword rsvg mswrite win32gfx iscii presentation wikipedia dash openwriter
,;t t

I got past that at some point, but then there were further errors related to the generated configure script that I really didn't care to mess around any further with.