Comment 15 for bug 6883

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.

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