Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.
Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net> writes:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote:
> > >> I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All
> > >> seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user
> > >setup
> > >> bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other
> > >> binaries, it also tries to run the setup bit, which core-dumps of
> > >> course, and then complains about the user setup not being done.
> > >>
> > >> Running a Hamm system that is about a week old since the last
> > >update.
> > >
> > >Quick hack to make it work
> > >
> > >rename /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/X11R6/libx
> > >run the staroffice setup
> > >rename /usr/X11R6/libx to /usr/X11R6/lib
> >
> > Would there be anything wrong with just making a symbolic link? And
> > leaveing it there (in case there are any other hair-brained apps
> > looking for a funny lib....
>
> The problem is that the setup program is finding the xlib6g libs there,
> which causes it a problem since it needs the regular xlib6 libs. Renaming
> the directory moves the xlib6g stuff completely out of ld.so's path. This
> will, of course, break running new X stuff until the directory is put
> back, but it allows the setup program to find the correct libraries in
> /usr/lib/libc5-compat
This looks like the same growing pains problems that we had 3-4 months
ago with X11 in hamm. Wasn't there a perl script that you could run on
binaries to scratch out the /usr/X11R6/lib directory from the `rpath'?
If that works, maybe the debian installer package could do something
similar.
- Hari
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