Problem installing Mathematica on FreeBSD 6.1

[Tony Maher]

Alexey Mikhailov wrote:

> I installed Mathematica 5.1 on my FreeBSD 6.1 system. And I can't run it..
> That's very strange behaviour:
> 
> ~/Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux % ./Mathematica
> ./Mathematica: relocation error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined
> symbol: __stderrp
> 
> But:
> 
> ~/Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux % ldd Mathematica
> Mathematica:
>       libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x284e5000)
>       libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x28507000)
>       librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x28558000)
>       libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x2856a000)
>       libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x285b4000)
>       libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x285c1000)
>       libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x285d5000)
>       libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x285de000)
>       libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x285f4000)
>       libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x286b5000)
>       /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x284ca000)
> 
> ~/Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux % strings
> /lib/libc.so.6|grep __stderrp
> __stderrp
> 
> Can someone point me out what's wrong?

I have test installed Mathematica 5.2 and it appears to work fine
(I do not actually use it except for simple tests)

ldd Mathematica
Mathematica:
    libm.so.6 => /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libm.so.6 (0x384ed000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libpthread.so.0 (0x38514000)
    librt.so.1 => /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/librt.so.1 (0x38567000)
    libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x3857a000)
    libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x385cf000)
    libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x385de000)
    libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x385f5000)
    libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x385ff000)
    libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x38619000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libc.so.6 (0x386ec000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x384ce000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x3880b000)

pkg_which /usr/compat/linux/lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libc-2.3.6.so
    linux_base-fc-4_8

pkg_which /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2
    linux_devtools-8.0_5 linux_base-fc-4_8

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tonym