Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:50:56 +0000 From: Nick <fb@vt.edu> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Acroread4 from ports supposed to work on 4.1? Message-ID: <39ABBFC0.D6AB4210@vt.edu> References: <39AB45AD.57BF96D6@vt.edu> <14763.45333.981353.729476@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Nick writes: > > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.1 on my AlphaStation 200 and I love it. > > I have the osf compat stuff working (because Netscape works fine). > > I did a make install from /usr/ports/print/acroread4 and the osf/1 > > version of acroreader 4.05 was installed. When I try to run acroread > > I get the error 'Illegal instruction' > > > > Does anyone else have acroreader4 up and running? > > I seem to remember that acroread 4 uses newer ev56 instructions > (probably something bwx related). So it works great on newer alphas > (21164a and newer). Doh. That's a shame that adobe didn't build it so that it would work with older chips... > Tru64 catches the trap and emulates the instruction. Similar to > fixing up unaligned accesses, this is very slow. None of the open > souce alpha OSes do this AFAIK. > > So, the best you can do is run acroread 3.x. Ok, hopefully 3.x will cut it. Thanks, Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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