Hi,

I´ve tried to use Acrobat Reader 7 binary on my LFS system, installation works fine,
but if i start it, the splash screen comes up and the nothing happens.

There is no error message and the binary has no debug or verbose option,
so i wonder is there a dependency that is not fulfilled?

If anyone has a clue, please post.

cz

I run LFS 5.0 at work and Acroread 7.0 works ok on that, I have yet to test it on LFS 6.0 which i run at home. What version of LFS are you running ?

Mad.

It needs libstdc++.so.5 from gcc 3.3.

Thanks Harmaa Kettu this was very helpful.

I´ve done a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.6 and it worked.

But another prob is appearing, reader can´t find .api modules.

cz

The api modules won't work if you just link libstdc++.so.6 to libstdc++.so.5. You actually need the library from gcc 3.3.x. I was having the same problem and installed gcc 3.3.4 and just used the library from it and it works fine.

So i´ve compiled gcc-3.3 without installing it, then i copy
the library's to /usr/lib, and now it does only complain
that PPKlite.api is not loaded.

So i wonder if there´s a way to make the system backward
compatible, without downgrading. Because some proprietary or
precompiled sw relies on the old libs, i.e. firefox-1.0.4-binary (i know it´s open-source)
it gives me following message when started:

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/generic/dl-tls.c: 75: _dl_next_tls_modid:
Assertion `result <= _rtld_local._dl_tls_max_dtv_idx' failed!

even though i have libsdtc++.so.5 not installed in /usr/lib but
in firefoxes own dir, there´re maybe other dependencies, or
ld is not aware of to different versions of the lib.

Some distros have a compatibility package to solve this, maybe
there´s a way to fix this in LFS too.

cz

This one is documented in the Acrobat Reader README file. Easy solution: delete the plugin. It doesn't do anything useful.

First I thought this was linuxthreads vs. NPTL conflict (tls = Thread Local Storage), but googling revealed it to be NPTL bug instead. There is a patch in Gentoo bugzilla.

This patch works fantastically well, even if i don´t know what it exactly does.
Got something to do with nvidia driver and the threading lib, if i understand
the bug trackers right?

So i have to say thank you once again, for giving me this hint, i appreciate that.

One little question in this context: i´m using kde with baghira style and gtk-qt-engine
Is firefox a real gtk-app?
When started from bash it gives me lots of errors like this:
(firefox-bin:21634): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed

But it´s full functional nevertheless.

cz

Ok this errors came from the gtk-qt-engine.