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Subject: Re: 5.2 and amd64 - good enough for a production server?
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Adriaan de Groot wrote:
[snip]
> Things with definite issues that I've run across:
> 
> lang/gcl - pointers in int madness
> lang/cmucl - binary-only i386 distribution
> graphics/acroread - binary only linux i386 distribution
> 
> Hardly stuff you're likely to run on a big server box, though. Standard 
> workstation fare runs fine as well.

acroread failed to build on my Gentoo AMD64 install as well.
However it has gpdf (gnome pdf)
Which I recently used to view some PDFs.

The instant-workstation port failed to build for me because it required 
acroread. Maybe the instant-workstation could drop the requirement for 
acroread and substitute gpdf, xpdf and/or kpdf (or whatever KDE uses) 
for the PDF reader depending on desktop choice.

Just a thought.

Jimmie Houchin