Please, upgrade to 1.5.9 -- I tried to create bibletime FC5 package and it requires libsword 1.5.9. Thanks.
Thanks for the report. I'm however already aware of this (and have packages for it built locally), but gnomesword, which depends on sword doesn't have a stable version that works well with sword-1.5.9 yet. If I can make the svn version work reasonably with sword-1.5.9, I'll then push out both to Fedora Extras. You can grab my locally built (for FC5) copies from ftp://czar.eas.yorku.ca/pub/sword/
This have been fixed a long time ago, but I forgot to close this.