Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:08:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acroread on the amd64 Message-ID: <20041201090849.GD1621@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20041124145143.O4002@april.chuckr.org> References: <20041124145143.O4002@april.chuckr.org>
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:57:07PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > I noticed that acroread is marked as being only for the i386 ... I have a > question about that ... I'm a little new at running the amd64, but I > thought that it was compatible (if it had the 32 bit libraries installed > to support it) with i386, so I would have expected my amd64 machine to be > ablel to run acroread with little trouble. The port being marked > as"ONLY_FOR_ARCHS", well, I considered, *possibly*, that the port author > hadn't had the testing capability, and maybe it did too work on the amd64. The problem is that running i386 Linux binaries on FreeBSD/amd64 is still a hack job in that none of the /usr/ports framework was made to actually support this. None of the linux_base* ports will install on FreeBSD/amd64, and that is a requirement of acroread. You can install Slackware i386 libs by hand and get acroread to run. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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