WP8 and libsafe problem

[Net Llama!]

http://sxs.sourceforge.net/sxs/wp-rh72.html

Anita Lewis wrote:
> Someone wrote to me trying to figure out why WP8 would not install on RH for
> him.  He found out that the problem was that he was running libsafe.  He
> said in order to install or to run WP with libsafe he needed to do the
> following:
> ---------------------------------------
> 
>  + remove the libsafe reference in /etc/ld.so.preload if this exists
> 
>  + unset the environment variable LD_PRELOAD before running the
>    installation script
> 
>  + unset LD_PRELOAD before running xwp; I use the following script to
>    call wordperfect:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> unset LD_PRELOAD
> exec /opt/WP8/wpbin/xwp "$@" &
> 
> Obviously the path to xwp must be adjusted to the directory chosen
> during installation.
> --------------------------------------
> He wrote to me, because I had the page about WP being installed on RedHat. 
> I had never even heard of libsafe and don't know if it is a RedHat thing or
> might be found on other systems.  I was thinking that you might want to
> encorporate this info somewhere in the WP section.  Perhaps it will fit in
> with something that is already there.  Maybe it *is* already there.  Anyway,
> it could be helpful info.
> 

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