On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:08:08PM +0200, Thomas Steffen wrote: > Thank you very much for the results and the log. The future does > indeed look promissing. > > But I do have a question about openoffice/chroot. As far as I could > figure it out, the prepared solution was to install the openoffice > package with a 32bit binary under /, and tell ld.so to use libraries > from a 32bit chroot to resolve openoffice. At least that works nicely > for me. > > But now I see hints to use dchroot. And while to me as a developer > that seems fine, I think it is not a feasible solution for the "end > user". The chroot environment has so many subtle difference compared > to the normal environment, that it could be very confusing. At the end > of the day, the installation should appear as one system, and not as a > split personality :-) > > So is there any option planned to run openoffice (and other 32bit > apps) directly? It might still be located in /emul/i386, but I would > like to call it directly, without the dchroot wrapper. I think > openoffice can be installed into any directory, so it should be > possible.
Well there are plans for openoffice 2.x to be 64bit compatible so it cna run natively instead. I thought there were openoffice packages for 64bit that just required some libs installed in the chroot/emul dir but would otherwise run as if they were 64bit programs. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
