From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 20 15:51:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A322137B7F4 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA09948; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:51:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA05195; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:51:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:51:17 -0400 (EDT) To: Todd Cohen Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: acroread4 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14591.34159.42813.764442@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Todd Cohen writes: > I installed acroread4 via the ports collection and when I try to run it I > get the following: > > bash-2.03$ acroread4 > Illegal instruction > > Any ideas? Anyone know of an alternative to use for now? > You failed to give almost any information about your configuration. When you have a problem, please at least include the version of FreeBSD you are running and the platform you are running it on. I'm *guessing* you're running on a machine which does not support byte/word instructions (LCA, EV4, EV45, or EV5), am I right? According a wheezing old EV5 box running Tru64, acroread4 contains instructions for newer CPUs which it needs to emulate: % /usr/pkg/Acrobat4/bin/acroread inst emulated pid=11774 va=0x11fffeeb0 pc=0x120058df0 inst=0x37ef0090 I don't know what 0x37ef0090 is & don't have time to look it up, but given that it doesn't work on a 21164 and works on my Miata at home, I'm guessing that its a bwx instruction. Unfortunately, FreeBSD doesn't support instruction emulation, so you're SOL right now. Fortunately, I think that 3.x version of Acrobat will be OK (at least the same Tru64 box does not spit out any messages about emulated instructions). Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message