Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

Hi :)
They have almost all libraries in common, sometimes there are slightly different 
names to some of the libraries.  Variables, calls, stack-pointers (?) (please no 
Latin quotes!) almost everything is the same and likely to cause conflicts.  All 
kinds of stuff that is way beyond the understanding of non-devs.  Most of it all 
dates back to the way things were set-up in Star Office, hence soffice, swriter, 
and so on.  It's not a trivial issue to be sorted out with a quick 
find&replace-all.  Just the code-clean-up is taking longer than 6 months 
although we are already seeing a lot of benefits from that, such as smaller 
downloads, faster start-up and so on. 

Regards from
Tom :)





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From: Milos Sramek <sramek.milos@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 13:48:13
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

Dňa 23.06.2011 12:51, Tom Davies  wrote / napísal(a):
> ________________________________
> From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 10:34:23
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people
>
> Le 21/06/11 20:56, Ernest Kurtz a écrit :
>
> Hi Ernest,
>
> > If there are any primarily Mac users on this list, please contact me off-list?  
> >
> >
> >
> > My interest is almost exclusively in Writer, and because I work on several 
> > projects at the same time, I like to have available and open several different 
>
> > word processors.  When I've tried to run both OOo and LO at the same time, LO 

> > crashes.  It works well if I do not open OOo, though I keep OOo on my machine.  
> >
> > No conflicts with NisusPro, MyWritings, GeoWord, Bean, but I would like to use 
>
> > OOo or NeoOffice. 
> I have noticed that with LO 3.3.x and OOo 3.3.x, I could get one or the
> other to crash if both were running at the same time. I haven't been
> able to pin it down though, as it is somewhat irregular and put it down
> to instabilities in both products. I have a theory that the programs
> possibly attempt to address the same memory space during certain
> operations, which potentially causes the problems. I can't prove it
> because trying to run valgrind on two separate OOo/Neo/LibO instances
> virtually brings my Mac to a standstill.
I would check the output of
ldd soffice.bin
(for both LO and OOO binaries). Maybe you will see that one uses a
shared library of the other.

Normally, these programs should be independent. If they influence
themselves, they must have something in common. The first thing, which
jumps to my mind, is a shared library with the same.

Milos
> Alex
>
>
>
> Hi :)
> That is not specific to Macs.  It happens on all platforms afaik (i haven't 
> heard from Bsd people).  That doesn't make it less important tho!
> Regards from
> Tom :)


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