On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: > > [snip] > > > The problem here is that "beginners" do not know how to installthe > > > libstdc++ libraries required. The simplest way for them is to install > > > IBM's rpm with --nodeps and then to ldconfig the libs in from the standard > > > beta version of OpenOffice. > > > Regards, > > > > an extra libstdc++ in ld's cache sounds to me like a sure source for > > strange troubles which those "beginners" will have no idea how to handle. > > In fact it is not a problem because the machines either do not have > libstdc++.so at all or they have an older version.
They have an older version. Moreever, many programs are linked with it. There is a ersonable chance that they will fail, as libstdc++ is not very good in the binary compitability department. > Remember that the > libstdc++.so that OpenOffice needs is newer than the libstdc++ that > installed out-of-the-box with RedHat 7.3, the preferred beginners distro. > > > > > If you want to install extra libraries, do that in a directory outside the > > cache (that is: not listed in /etc/ld.so.conf) and create a script to run > > OO: > > As I said above, there is no problem using ld.so.conf because there is no > library redundancy. The problem with your method is that is assumes that > the beginner knows what script to write, or for that matter, knows how to > write a script, chmod +x and test it. My method doesn't require that level > of competence (like knowing what LD_LIBRARY_PATH is) from someone who just > wants to try out IBM's bidi openoffice. > Regards, As I said, the side-effects can be strange, and more than that newbie can handle (kde suddenly breaking? I would consider that as a catastrophy for a newbie if that newbie hapened to use kde) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
