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Re: new StarOffice fails with Red Hat Motif?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Hamstra)
Sat Nov 2 13:19:36 1996

Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 13:22:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com>
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On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Sunando Sen wrote:

> 
> 
> > Has anyone managed to install the new beta release of StarOffice?
> > When I run the 'setup' script, it complains that it can't load library
> > 'libMrm.so.2'.  That's perfectly understandable: my Red Hat Motif
> > rh-motif-devel-2.0-2 rpm only includes libMrm.a, no shared lib :-(
> > 
> > Mark Hamstra
> > Bentley Systems, Inc.
> > 
> 
> I have the Xinside CDE package which does include a shared version of libMrm.  
> But that is a different version of Motif, I believe, so that's niether here nor 
> there.  In any case, just a thought.  Suppose you did something like the  
> following:
> 
> 	ar xv libMrm.a
> 	cc -shared -Wl,-soname,libMrm.so.2 -o libMrm.so.2 *.o
> 	
> is this a bad idea?  Any particular reason it would not work?

This is about what I came up with after stopping to think about it.  This
seems to work fine: I've got the basic StarOffice install done, now I've
just got to remember how to do the individual user setups.....

Mark Hamstra
Bentley Systems, Inc.


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