Issue 4630 - dlcompat detection failed
Summary: dlcompat detection failed
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: Mac Mac OS X, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: ed
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Reported: 2002-05-08 08:05 UTC by runningdave
Modified: 2007-02-05 03:05 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description runningdave 2002-05-08 08:05:38 UTC 
i have dlcompat installed with fink (latest version). but the oo-instaler always
stops and says dlcompat is not installed. fink is installed normaly - all
programs are in /sw. but my /Applications folder is on its own partition - not
on boot volume. is this the reason for my problem?
Comment 1 Unknown 2002-05-14 09:41:55 UTC 
I can report similar failures on my system. I too am using fink as my source for dlcompat. In may case, however, /Applications and /sw/ are both on the root partition.

Note that dlcompat *is* installed:

$ locate libdl
/sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib
/sw/lib/libdl.a
/sw/lib/libdl.dylib

Also: 

$ locate dlfc
/sw/include/dlfcn.h

What is the OpenOffice installer looking for?
Comment 2 Unknown 2002-06-01 17:23:49 UTC 
I too have the problem.
However the locate libdl and locate dflc reveal nothing in my 
iMac.
However the command fink list | grep "i" indicates dlcompat is 
installed:

 i  dlcompat        20020413-1  Dynamic loading compatibility 
library
Comment 3 Unknown 2002-07-26 09:54:56 UTC 
I just saw that this problem has been addressed in the 1.0 Release 
Notes, libdl.dylib is always looked for in /usr/local/lib, instead of 
/sw/lib for a typical fink installation. 

I just softlinked /sw/lib/libdl.dylib to /usr/local/lib to get it working.
Comment 4 Olaf Felka 2002-07-29 10:49:56 UTC 
Sander told me indiscreetly that you are working on OOo for Mac :-)
Please have a look at this issue.
Comment 5 Olaf Felka 2002-07-29 11:21:28 UTC 
Forgotten to reasign.
Comment 6 daboss 2002-08-01 20:43:05 UTC 
hi ed, 
i just coincidentially was assigned that issue, but i think you know
mor about the resolution (maybe it can be closed now ?).

regards

daniel boss
Comment 7 ed 2002-08-11 20:00:26 UTC 
This is addressed in the latest 1.0.1 installer which will actually attempt to install libdl into /usr/local/lib if it isn't present.  This is a difficulty arising from the large number of ways to install libdl, and not having an installer smart enough to peek through the DYDL_LIBRARY_PATH.  Hopefully we can get rid of libdl dependencies in the future.  Most of them now are isolated in external code incorporated into OOo.
Comment 8 jjmckenzie 2007-02-05 03:05:51 UTC 
dlcompat is no longer used with OpenOffice.org.

Closing issue.

James McKenzie