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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: Ingo Arndt <scachi AT gmx.de>
  • Cc: SMGL - Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] 64bit Sourcemage with smgl-emul32 to run Firefox 2.0.0.1
  • Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:43:07 -0600

Ingo Arndt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> maybe this information will useful for someone.
>
> I had some problem getting 32bit Firefox-bin 2.0.0.1 via smgl-emul32
> to work with my Sourcemage 64bit intallation.
> The main problem was that firefox crashed every time a dialog (save
> file, preference,..) opened.
> It looks like the cause of the problem was either that pango 1.4.0 is
> provided
> by the smgl-emul32 spell but Firefox 2.0.0.1 needs 1.5.0 and/or there are no
> pangorc, pango.modules and pangox.aliases files in this spell
> since I got a console message about an critical pango error when Firefox
> crashed.
>
> So I have downloaded the Slackware package of pango: pango-1.12.4-i486-1.tgz
> and added its "etc" directory and .so files from this archive to the
> correct
> /opt/emul32 sub directories and edited the paths in the etc files to match
> my setup.
>
> Then I created the file /usr/local/bin/32bit with the following lines
> -----
> #!/bin/sh
>
> export GTK_PATH=/opt/emul32/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/
>
> export PANGO_RC_FILE=/opt/emul32/etc/pango/pangorc
>
> export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/opt/emul32/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
>
> $*
> ------
>
>
> When I start the 32bit firefox spell with the command "32bit firefox"
> everything works fine for me now.
>

THanks for the info. If you could file a bug on our bugzilla, we'll see
what we can do about getting the newer version of pango into the
smgl-emul32 spell :) At least then it won't get lost in the flood of
mails that flow through the ML :)


David

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