Re: Staroffice and Glibc 2.1

Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:07:11 +0200


Hello,

On Sat, Apr 17, Dave Cinege wrote:

> Yeah yeah not the best place...if you know a better one, pass this along.
>
> There was some dicussion about linux 2.2, libc2.1 and how staroffice needed
> libc 2.0.7 awhile ago. I never remember a good solution to this coming out.
>
> If there still isn't something better, I've come up with this:
>
> sed s/libc.6.so/libc-star/g
>
> On all the staroffice libs and binaries. (Or possibly just a few offending
> ones??) libc-star is a renamed libc-2.0.7.so, and get's dumped in
> /usr/local/lib. This also needs to be done for any other conflicting parts.
> (ld-linux.so.2 ??) Remember the name of the replacment lib
> MUST be the SAME length as the original or the bin will get FUBARed.
>
> Someone with the desire could whip up a script to automate this pretty quickly.
> This should also work for anyother apps that made the same mistake as SO.

The StarOffice version, which is on the SuSE Linux 6.1 CDs, runs fine
for me on a glibc 2.1 (latest cvs snapshot) system. Don't know about
the so called Filter update version

Thorsten

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