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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:57:57PM -0600, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> >Things with definite issues that I've run across:
...
> >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.

Huh?  Acroread is a binary distributed by Adobe.  One can only install
it, not build it.