Beatware Be Basics - Writer wordprocessor - error "Symbol not found"

[un_spacyar]

When try to start Writer application, I get the following error:

/boot/apps/Be Basics> Writer runtime_loader: /boot/apps/Be Basics/Writer: Could not resolve symbol '_free' resolve symbol "_free" returned: -2147478780 runtime_loader: /boot/apps/Be Basics/Writer: Troubles relocating: Symbol not found /boot/apps/Be Basics>

Tested in Haiku alpha 4.1

[anevilyak]

(In #9639) Duplicate of #9638.

[vidrep]

Testing on hrev49552 x86_gcc2 Error same as in ticket description. Attached screenshot showing syslog and terminal output.

[pulkomandy]

Do you have a download link for the application?

[diver]

a patched version of BeBasic by 3dEyes

[vidrep]

I installed BeatWare BeBasics, then overwrote them with the patched files that Diver attached. Write now works, but there are a couple of issues. First, is that Write wants to store its configuration files to /home/config/add-ons (attached screenshot1), which is a read only directory. Second, which is minor, is that symlinks must be manually pointed to the Deskbar applications list. Could a .hpkg be created from the patched files, with correct directories and symlinks?

[diver]

Sure, that should work. You can create a repack and submit it to one of the repos. For instance ​Guest One's. That being said, BeBasics provides only a historical interest as you can't do much with it anyway :)

[michel]

Replying to vidrep:

I installed BeatWare BeBasics, then overwrote them with the patched files that Diver attached. Write now works, but there are a couple of issues. First, is that Write wants to store its configuration files to /home/config/add-ons (attached screenshot1), which is a read only directory. Second, which is minor, is that symlinks must be manually pointed to the Deskbar applications list. Could a .hpkg be created from the patched files, with correct directories and symlinks?

Sure. I've handled a few cases like that. You move the config file to a more reasonable place, like ~/config/settings, then create a symlink from that to where the app wants the file to be. Finally you create a post-install script to create 0-byte files in the appropriate places on installation (use touch, that way the config does not get messed up on a reinstall). this creates a wormhole :-) through the write-only directories to your config file. Yes, it's a kludge. But it does work. Contact me off-list (clasqm@…) if you get stuck.

[vidrep]

PulkoMandy,

Attached is the output of the strings and the readelf we discussed on IRC.

[vidrep]

I have attached a screenshot of BeatWare Writer partially working on hrev50116 x86_gcc2. The only problem remaining is that the application cannot find the various filters which normally would reside in the /boot/home/config/add-ons/BeatWare/Writer directory. see attached screenshot2

[pulkomandy]

Ok, from this output we can see that the app is properly using find_directory (in two places) and there is no hardcoded path (strings shows nothing that look like "add-ons").

This means we can act at the find_directory level to adjust the paths and the app would work again.

Two solutions:

• Patch Haiku to detect BeOS executables, and use non-packaged directories in find_directory in that case
• Patch Wrier to change the constant sent to find_directory so that it uses non-packaged add-ons, or possibly settings if that's more appropriate?

[diver]

Can't we just package it so that its add-ons would appear in the /boot/home/config/add-ons/BeatWare/Writer ?

[pulkomandy]

It seems to try to write settings there? Which would be a problem. For the actual add-ons, yes, putting them in an hpkg file would probably make them work.

[vidrep]

I already tried making a hpkg for Writer. It installs, but I still needed to create symlinks to the/boot/home/config/settings/BeatWare/Writer directory afterwards. If the same could be done for the add-ons, it would work. I have attached the package attributes for the hpkg I created.

[pulkomandy]

You have files in config/add-ons and config/settings in your package. I think it should be just add-ons and settings (because the package "root" is home/config when installed in home).

[vidrep]

I tried your suggestion and about a dozen other combinations to no avail. If some of our "home" directories weren't read only, it would be easy to get it working.

[un_spacyar]

Since there are a working HPKG avaible at Clasqm, I guess this ticket could be closed.

[pulkomandy]

Yes, the patched version above works fine in the non-packaged case and the package completes that.