Acroread port errors

[taxman]

On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:37 pm, taxman wrote:
> Hi, I installed acroread-3.02 from ports but I get errors when trying to
> run it. First I got 3-4 errors about different lib versions needed, eg:
>
> libc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Thats true because I had  libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.4.so  in
> /usr/compat/linux/lib there were others that were similiar, but I forgot
> which ones.  So for fun, to see if it would work, I just created the new
> links  with
> # ln -s libc-2.2.4.so libc.so.5
> and similiar for the others.  Now I get this error, and don't know what to
> do:
>
> /usr/local/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: relocation error:
> /usr/local/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: undefined symbol:
> __libc_init
>
> I'm guessing this is where the different lib versions are not playing well
> together.
>
> pkg_version shows all of the relevant ports such as  linux_base-7.1_2 and
> acroread up to date.  cvsup'd ports last night

for the sake of the archives, I never got acroread-3.0.2 to work, but 
installing /usr/ports/print/acroread5   worked just fine.

Tim