Firefox, Flash7 and libstlport_gcc.so mistery

[Norberto Meijome]

Chandan Haldar wrote:
> cd /usr/ports/devel/stlport
> make install clean
>
> This solved the problem for me.
>
> libstlport_gcc.so (provided by the stlport port) is needed
> by libnpsoplugin.so.  I assume you installed (like I did)
> openoffice from a binary package by pkg_add.  Apparently
> the openoffice binary package installation does not cause
> installation of the stlport port as a dependency, although
> it installs the firefox plugin libnpsoplugin.so which does
> require the stlport lib.
>
> I could not figure out where and how firefox has been
> instructed to look for the openoffice plugin though.  I
> run openoffice 2.0.0 and the libnpsoplugin.so resides in
> /usr/local/openoffice.org2.0.0/program/libnpsoplugin.so.
> However, I didn't find this path or a link in the firefox
> config.
>

thanks - this fixed the problem. Yes, i had installed OO from a package,
as I lack a time machine to skip a 48 day build cycle ;) <G>

cheers,
Beto

>
> Norberto Meijome wrote:
>> hi all,
>> I have firefox 1.5 working fine with Flash 7 (limited tests, havent
>> confirmed with video.google.com) - . but on first load of the flash
>> plugin, i get this in .xsession-errors:
>>
>> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
>> /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.1/program/libnpsoplugin.so [Shared object
>> "libstlport_gcc.so" not found, required by "libnpsoplugin.so"]
>>
>> the libnpsoplugin.so exists...but why does ffox want to use it?
>>