OpenOffice port vs Firefox

[Jerold McAllister]

Perry Hutchison writes: 

> 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?

Yes, I have both on FreeBSD 6.1.
I didn't do anything special.   I just built them both from ports.
I had to get the jdk thing from Sun for OpenOffice first due to the
license restrictions from Sun which is annoying.   But it is easy and
straightforward.   Then I just make make install on each of Firefox,
Thunderbird and openoffice and after a long time they were all there
and worked.   I made OpenOffice be the WP for Firefox to bring up to
handle .doc and maybe a couple of other file types and that works fine too. 

I did cvsup everything (system and ports tree) to the latest before
getting started with doing ports installations.   That might make a
difference. 

////jerry 

////jerry
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