Apple's X11 Update?

[Tabitha McNerney]

I also forgot to write in my response a moment ago (apologies, I've got
papers all over my desk and a gazillion things on my mind), I do have on my
system (which had the OpenOffice 2.0 installation previously) icu from
MacPorts installed, specifically:

$ port installed icu
> icu @3.4.1_0+darwin_8 (active)
>

TM

On 2/24/07, Tabitha McNerney <tabithamc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/23/07, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007a at ryandesign.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 20, 2007, at 06:41, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
> >
> > > I was on a leave of absence for a few months and when I came back I
> > > noticed that, in Software Update on our Mac at our office which has
> > > Darwin (and now Mac) Ports installed suggested that there is a new
> > > X11 update from Apple that among other things fixes fonts. I have
> > > the previous X11 User and SDK packages installed on our machines
> > > but have instead used XFree86 via Darwin (and now MacPorts) just fine.
> >
> > >
> > > Is there any reason to install Apple's update? Is it recommended by
> > > the MacPorts community?
> >
> > I don't know what the rest of the community says, but I say it's a
> > good idea to install all updates Apple suggests.
> >
> > > Possibly related (though maybe not), while I was gone, someone in
> > > our office upgraded the same Mac to 10.4.8 (but they did not
> > > install the new X11 package as suggested by Software Update). I
> > > have now noticed that after launching XDarwin ( e.g. "startx")
> > > successfully, if I try to next run OpenOffice 2 I am now unable to
> > > and I am seeing this error:
> > >
> > > ----------------------------
> > >
> > > $ ./soffice
> > > dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/libicuuc.dylib.26
> > >     Referenced from: /Volumes/ports/Applications/
> > > OpenOffice.org2.0.app/Contents/openoffice.org2.0/program
> > >     Reason: image not found
> > > soffice: line 233: 21134 Trace/BPT trap       "$sd_prog/
> > > $sd_binary"  "$@"
> > >
> > > ----------------------------
> > >
> > > I don't recall having this error before I left for my leave of
> > > absence and I'm wondering if it is at all related to a 10.4.8
> > > update and possibly requires the new Apple X11 update even though
> > > I'm using XFree86?
> >
> > A quick search shows that libicuuc seems to be part of icu, the
> > International Components for Unicode. If you had the icu port
> > installed, and OpenOffice.org made use of it, and you had recently
> > upgraded the icu port, then this could account for the problem, and
> > the solution would be to rebuild the OpenOffice.org port. However, I
> > cannot find any such port. Did you install OpenOffice.org via
> > MacPorts (if so, what's the port called?) or did you install it by
> > downloading a binary from www.openoffice.org? If the latter, I would
> > have expected it to be completely self-contained so that breakage
> > such as you're seeing would not be possible. However, it couldn't
> > hurt to just try to reinstall OpenOffice.org anyway (by whatever
> > method you usually use) and see if that fixes it.
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> Ryan, thank you for your reply and suggestions. Apologies that I had not
> yet followed up to this message I originally authored. In the days since I
> authored it, I did not upgrade Apple's X11 however I did install a new
> version of OpenOffice ( 2.1) which became available as a binary from one
> of the main www.openoffice.org mirrors (not as a MacPort). In doing so,
> the problem went away. I have still not yet updated to Apple's X11 but I am
> going to consider doing so early next week. I'm quite concerned if Apple's
> X11 might in some way interfere with XFree86 because I recall (without
> looking at the moment at my detailed notes) the set up and configuration of
> XFree86 via MacPorts was relatively delicate.
>
> Best regards,
>
> TM
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