On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:34:14PM +1000, Jim Watson wrote: > Is there a problem running this on v8? can you post some error message?
sure: hyper:~# openoffice OpenOffice.org for Debian - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz running openoffice.org setup... /usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libsal.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory setup failed (code 0).. abort hyper:~# ls -l /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 26 11:09 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3 -> libsal.so.3.1.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1817928 May 24 20:26 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3.1.0 > If this library cannot run then it will be possible to make a separate sal > library for v8. it's the runtime linker, which refuses to load the "incorrect" shared library. Technical it would be possible to mix the two version like it's done for solaris. But since ld.so tries to find optimized libraries, it also chooses only matching libaries. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ Alexander Viro on linux-kernel ]
