Linux compat library error: ELF file OS ABI invalid

[Glyn Millington]

Glyn Millington <glyn at millingtons.org> writes:

> Tijl Coosemans <tijl at ulyssis.org> writes:
>
>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:14:54 Glyn Millington wrote:
>>> FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ,----
>>> | /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin: error while
>>> | loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6: ELF file OS ABI
>>> | invalid
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> Now I *think*   that what it ought to load is 
>>> 
>>> /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
>>> 
>>> but it goes for the FreeBSD X extension lib instead.
>>> 
>>> Can anyone help me to fix this?
>>
>> If /compat/linux/usr/local doesn't exist, perhaps making it a symlink
>> to X11R6 does the trick.
>
> Spot on!!    Many thanks :-)

Whoops - spoke to soon :-)  Realplayer still doesn't get it!

Thanks for OO though.


atb




Glyn