From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 21:03:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E8016A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:03:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp18.wxs.nl (smtp18.wxs.nl [195.121.6.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB6943D41 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:03:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marco@beishuizen.info) Received: from tsunami.bsd (ipd50a233c.speed.planet.nl [213.10.35.60]) by smtp18.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I2I00CPNAHV9Y@smtp18.wxs.nl> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:03:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:03:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen In-reply-to: <411FC803.7070103@daleco.biz> Sender: marco@tsunami.bsd To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT FreeBSD: Homepage: References: <411FC803.7070103@daleco.biz> cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 4 on alpha? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Marco Beishuizen List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:03:45 -0000 On stardate Sun, 15 Aug 2004, the wise Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. entered: > If linux compatibility is enabled (I have to assume it was before, as > Adobe doesn't port directly to *BSD) and working (again, I assume > as I run on i386), you could get the tarball and try to > configure/build/install > from source: > > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/ > > Of course, if linux compatibility is working, I would think you could > run 5.x, also; so either there *is* a difficulty in getting it to run on > your architecture (and therefore it hasn't yet been marked OK for > alpha) or else the port maintainer just hasn't yet found time to set > things up properly for alpha. Linux compatibility doesn't work on my alpha. The acroread version that worked was the dec/osf one, with osf compatibility enabled. But just downloading and installing this version from the Adobe site doesn't work also. The ports version had a patch to get it to work. > I imagine that directing your question > towards the ports@ list or perhaps even the alpha@ list might give > you some insight --- but I would definitely look at the list charters > first; I read neither of them and don't know if this would be "on topic" > for those lists. I looked at the mailing list archives but couldn't find anything about this. I did send this mail to the alpha list first but I didn't get any answer, so sent it also to the questions list. A lot more people read it, perhaps also someone that has a solution. Marco -- Q: How many IBM cpu's does it take to do a logical right shift? A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.