Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:36:34 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acroread on the amd64 Message-ID: <20041124143634.ji8s8k80o84w8ksg@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <20041124145143.O4002@april.chuckr.org> References: <20041124145143.O4002@april.chuckr.org>
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Quoting Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>: > I noticed that acroread is marked as being only for the i386 ... I have a > question about that ... I'm a little new at running the amd64, but I > thought that it was compatible (if it had the 32 bit libraries installed > to support it) with i386, so I would have expected my amd64 machine to be > ablel to run acroread with little trouble. The port being marked > as"ONLY_FOR_ARCHS", well, I considered, *possibly*, that the port author > hadn't had the testing capability, and maybe it did too work on the amd64. > > Anyone have more detailed info about that? Notice, I didn't mail to > freeBSD-ports, I don't know how strict our mailing list filters are, I > thought they'd probably kick me out if I tried to cross-post. > acroread is a linux binary. I'm not sure that 32 bit linux emulation works yet on amd64... although I could be wrong. Ken
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