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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:54:54 +0200
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        wc.bulte@chello.nl
Cc:        "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, FreeBSD hackers list <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Acroread4
Message-ID:  <20000413215454.A13701@internal>
In-Reply-To: <20000412213334.A1187@yedi.wbnet>; from wkb@chello.nl on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:33:34PM %2B0200
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On Wed, 12-Apr-2000 at 21:33:34 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 03:02:10PM -0400, Sean O'Connell wrote:
> > Wilko Bulte stated:
> > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 10:38:04AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > > > >>>>> "A" == Asmodai  <Jeroen> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > >> I don't think this is a 4.0 issue.  I get the same on a couple of 3.4R 
> > > > >> systems, minus the locale message.
> > > > 
> > > > A> I can, on my 3.4-STABLE, get acroread4 to coredump time and again.
> > > > 
> > > > I've never had acroread version 4 croak on my 3.4-STABLE system.  It
> > > > works just perfectly fine.
> > > 
> > > Well... (just installed):
> > > 
> > > acroread-4.05 gives: 
> > > 
> > > WKB ~>acroread4 
> > > Floating point exception (core dumped)
> > > 
> > > on 3.4-stable. Is this what Vivek is seeing?
> > 
> > Wilko-
> > 
> > I think you can get around this by installing the 
> > /sys/i386/include/npx.h (version 1.18) from RELENG_4,5 
> > and rebuilding your kernel (this also helps with linux
> > netscape/realplayer and a few other linux goodies).
> 
> Hmm, interesting. Unfortunately it is no so simple as it appears. 
> You also need globals.h which is not in 3.4-stable. Pulled that out of
> CVS. Now I see vm-machdep.c fail the compile..

Don't use the whole npx.h 1.18, only the latest patch which sets
__INITIAL_NPXCW__  to 0x127F.

This made it work for me...

	-Andre


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