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Date:      Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:31:29 +0200
From:      Frank Staals <f.staals@zonnet.nl>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [freebsd-questions] Error starting opera 8.00
Message-ID:  <426667C1.8040509@zonnet.nl>
In-Reply-To: <44k6mxwwdj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <42655369.4040502@zonnet.nl> <44k6mxwwdj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Frank Staals <f.staals@zonnet.nl> writes:
>
>  
>
>>I downloaded opera 8.00, extracted the .tar.gz and ran the install.sh
>>script, all the files were copied to the right places. When I tried to
>>run opera I first had to symlink 2 libs ( libm.so.2 and libc_r.so.4 )
>>that wasn't much of a problem but when I try to run it now I get this
>>error:
>>
>>frank@Riza$ opera
>>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: Undefined symbol
>>"__stderrp"
>>
>>I am running FreeBSD 5.3.
>>
>>Anyone an Idea what I am doing wrong ?
>>    
>>
>
>Not offhand (although it might just be a library inconsistency;
>symlinking like you did is not generally a good idea:  version 
>numbers get changed for a *reason*).  Try using the port; this 
>is exactly why we have them.
>
>[/usr/ports/www/opera-devel]
>
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>
With the port I got the same error so that didn't do the job. I 
installed the new Opera by hand because the port wasn't updated yet.

Frank



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