OpenOffice port vs Firefox

[Michael Hughes]

On Wed, 6 Sep 06 17:37:36 PDT
perryh at pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote:

> Having gotten a sufficiently-recent version of glib, I am now
> several hours into the build of OpenOffice, and I've discovered
> that Firefox has quit working.  When I try to start it:
> 
> GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 187 (): error 'Invalid
> argument' during 'pthread_mutex_trylock' aborting...
> Abort trap (core dumped)
> 
> Of course, since it won't start up, I can't consult Help/About
> to find out the version :(  but based on /var/db/pkg I think it is
> firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1
> 
> I suppose Firefox and OpenOffice are tripping over each other WRT
> the version of some shared library, but I thought the whole point
> of having version numbers on shared libs was to prevent that sort
> of problem.
> 
> Does anyone have Firefox and OpenOffice coexisting on a single
> system?  How is it accomplished?
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Perry,
  It isn't easy is it.  I am not sure why FireFox quit working like
that.  When I created the new glib for my box I was still running
mozilla 5.0 and didn't have any trouble with it.  I wonder if it has
something to do with gtk+.  I am running FireFox 1.5.0.6 that I
downloaded the tarball and compiled.

  Let me know if you figure this out.

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