Re: Star Office 5 & Potato/Glibc2.1??

[David Stern <dstern@u.washington.edu>]

On 27 Mar 1999 23:14:05 +0200, wrote:

I hope noone minds if I expand on this thread a little.  Sorry, but 
there's too much to quote.  Summary: running up to date potato, 
apparently glibc2.1 replaced glibc2.0 and staroffice stopped working.

Jules Bean suggested a wrapper for staroffice:
1.) Get ldso from slink
2.) mkdir /usr/local/glibc2.0
3.) dpkg-deb -x ldso_1.9.10-1.deb /usr/local/glibc2.0

The original suggestion which did not work for me was to append .real 
to the binary and to chmod +x a wrapper script (all on two lines).
    #!/bin/sh
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/glibc2.0/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
/usr/local/glibc2.0/lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.10 soffice.bin.real

However the staroffice binary already has a wrapper (soffice calls 
soffice.bin), and it looks like it might be better to add the needed 
code there rather than an additional layer of encapsulation.  Since 
soffice (wrapper) has
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

I should be able to add my glibc2.0 path:
    # set the glibc2.0 path
    glibc2.0_path=`/usr/local/glibc2.0/lib`
    export glibc2.0_path

    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$glibc2.0_path:$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Now all that's left is to somehow tell the staroffice binary to use the 
ldso from glibc2.0.  Originally, soffice calls the binary:
    exec $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" 
"$8" "$9"
I've tried a number of ways that don't work, but is there a good way to 
inform soffice.bin to use /usr/local/glibc2.0/lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.10?  
(I've checked for dependent packages, bugs, changelogs.)

Would someone please confirm that ld-linux.so.1.9.10 is the correct 
ldso?  My potato system is showing a ld-linux.so.2 as linking to 
ld-2.1.1.so, which to me infers I might not have the correct ldso 
package to run staroffice5 (because ld-linux.so.1.9.10 might not be 
glibc2.0).

Thanks,
-- 
David
dstern@u.washington.edu