Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:40:56 -0400 From: "Jerold McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice port vs Firefox Message-ID: <E1GLL3t-0004Ra-MF@sys15.mail.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <10609070037.AA29499@pluto.rain.com> References: <10609070037.AA29499@pluto.rain.com>
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Perry Hutchison writes: > Having gotten a sufficiently-recent version of glib, I am now > several hours into the build of OpenOffice, and I've discovered > that Firefox has quit working. When I try to start it: > > GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 187 (): error 'Invalid argument' during 'pthread_mutex_trylock' > aborting... > Abort trap (core dumped) > > Of course, since it won't start up, I can't consult Help/About > to find out the version :( but based on /var/db/pkg I think it is > firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1 > > I suppose Firefox and OpenOffice are tripping over each other WRT > the version of some shared library, but I thought the whole point > of having version numbers on shared libs was to prevent that sort > of problem. > > Does anyone have Firefox and OpenOffice coexisting on a single > system? How is it accomplished? Yes, I have both on FreeBSD 6.1. I didn't do anything special. I just built them both from ports. I had to get the jdk thing from Sun for OpenOffice first due to the license restrictions from Sun which is annoying. But it is easy and straightforward. Then I just make make install on each of Firefox, Thunderbird and openoffice and after a long time they were all there and worked. I made OpenOffice be the WP for Firefox to bring up to handle .doc and maybe a couple of other file types and that works fine too. I did cvsup everything (system and ports tree) to the latest before getting started with doing ports installations. That might make a difference. ////jerry ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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