Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:13:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Cohen <cohentl@clarkson.edu> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: acroread4 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10004201912010.8122-100000@crux.clarkson.edu> In-Reply-To: <14591.34159.42813.764442@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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You're right, I'm sorry... Yeah, I have an older AlphaStation 200, I'll try acroread 3. Thanks for you help. -Todd On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------- http://www.clarkson.edu/~cohentl "Sometimes crazy things happen in circuits." - Muku, 1999 "The answers to lifes problems aren't at the bottom of bottles, they're on TV" - Homer J. Simpson --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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