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Date:      Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:21:18 +0100
From:      Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
To:        Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, openoffice@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [openoffice]no suitable windowing system found, exiting.
Message-ID:  <20051221192118.GA88506@aoi.wolfpond.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051220232754.48631fb4@kan.dnsalias.net>
References:  <43A8BD3F.2010006@gddsn.org.cn> <20051220232754.48631fb4@kan.dnsalias.net>

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On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:27:54PM -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:26:07 +0800
> Huang wen hui <huang@gddsn.org.cn> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > I used openoffice 2.0R from
> > ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/. On recent
> > CURRENT,
> > got this problem:
> > 
> > no suitable windowing system found, exiting.
> > 
> > I try to back out kan's ELF symbol versioning and solve this problem.
> > Does recompile openoffice can solve
> > this problem? I ask becasue compile openoffice is too long.
> 
> I discovered the OpenOffice breakage too, only with 1.1.4. Backing out
> symbol versioning patch helps.
> 
> I will look for an exact cause of failure when I have some free time.
> OpenOffice is a big dlsym() user and it is possible it has to be made
> aware that rtld pays attention to symbol versions now.

Fwiw, this is the same message given by a FreeBSD/i386 OpenOffice binary on
a 6.0-RELEASE amd64 machine.

I intented to find out more but real life got in the way...

-- 
Francois Tigeot



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