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[Daniel Goller <dgoller AT satx.rr.com>]

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:43:07 -0600
David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:

> 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
> 


ok, so i no longer need to read the mailing list, this was sent on monday, 
and on the way home yesterday i was thinking how i have to update 
smgl-emul32, once i have my new motherboard and can test all that, for the 
mean time, thanks for the info you have provided.

Daniel

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