For those interested, a pan 0.133 uci extension (binary package) for Damnsmalllinux has been posted in the testing repo here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/testing/
First install gtk+-2.10.9.dsl.
If you can do without spellchecking, gtk+-2.12.9.uci will save much ramdisk space (important for low ram machines) and should work instead.
Many thanks to Walt for helping sort out the compile issues.
-phil