Linux compat library error: ELF file OS ABI invalid

[Tijl Coosemans]

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.