Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:03:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 4 on alpha? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.61.0408152246490.13335@tsunami.bsd> In-Reply-To: <411FC803.7070103@daleco.biz> References: <Pine.BSF.4.61.0408151705260.13335@tsunami.bsd> <411FC803.7070103@daleco.biz>
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On stardate Sun, 15 Aug 2004, the wise Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. entered: > If linux compatibility is enabled (I have to assume it was before, as > Adobe doesn't port directly to *BSD) and working (again, I assume > as I run on i386), you could get the tarball and try to > configure/build/install > from source: > > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/ > > Of course, if linux compatibility is working, I would think you could > run 5.x, also; so either there *is* a difficulty in getting it to run on > your architecture (and therefore it hasn't yet been marked OK for > alpha) or else the port maintainer just hasn't yet found time to set > things up properly for alpha. Linux compatibility doesn't work on my alpha. The acroread version that worked was the dec/osf one, with osf compatibility enabled. But just downloading and installing this version from the Adobe site doesn't work also. The ports version had a patch to get it to work. > I imagine that directing your question > towards the ports@ list or perhaps even the alpha@ list might give > you some insight --- but I would definitely look at the list charters > first; I read neither of them and don't know if this would be "on topic" > for those lists. I looked at the mailing list archives but couldn't find anything about this. I did send this mail to the alpha list first but I didn't get any answer, so sent it also to the questions list. A lot more people read it, perhaps also someone that has a solution. Marco -- Q: How many IBM cpu's does it take to do a logical right shift? A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.
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