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

[Frank Rosendahl <f.rosendahl@lin4net.de>]

David Stern <dstern@u.washington.edu> writes:

> 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).

Hey David !

I did that patch to my StarOffice and it starts again under Potato,
but it doesn't print anymore !!!

Have you also a soultion for this problem ???

CU
Frank