Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:51:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Todd Cohen <cohentl@clarkson.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: acroread4 Message-ID: <14591.34159.42813.764442@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10004201825340.6588-100000@crux.clarkson.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10004201825340.6588-100000@crux.clarkson.edu>
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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 <acroread> 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
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