Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:09:51 -0801 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Browser and Acrobat Reader problem + solution Message-ID: <20050401071013.GA76660@lizzy.catnook.local>
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I was having this problem with recent Acrobat Reader ports and
mozilla's/firefoxes which exhibited itself by the inability to open PDF
documents from within the browser. Inside the browser (mozilla/firefox) the
`acroread' script is being used as a helper application to open the PDF file.
The error I was seeing indicated that acroread (the Linux binary) was trying
to open /usr/local/lib/libartsdsp.so.0!
After some digging I found the following:
The /usr/local/bin/mozilla script tries to find a /dev/dsp handler; under KDE
it finds and uses artsdsp which sets LD_PRELOAD to something like
/usr/local/lib/libartsdsp.so.0:/usr/local/lib/libartsc.so.0. This of course
doesn't work since a Linux binary (acroread) cannot use FreeBSD DSO's. The fix
is to use a helper script which unsets LD_PRELOAD before starting acroread:
% cat /usr/local/bin/acroread.sh
#!/bin/sh
unset LD_PRELOAD
exec acroread "$@"
%
Hope somebody finds this useful.
--
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com
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