When I try to start this version of acroread, it immediately coredumps on start- up, so is completely unuseable. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type "acroread" <CR>. Actual Results: It coredumped. Expected Results: The program should have started. Please change the mask on app-text/acroread-7.0.1.1 to masked or at least testing. It is certainly NOT stable. Please, only then mark this bug as closed, as it can only be fixed upstream.
Created attachment 66676 [details] My emerge info.
Note that this is probably the same bug as listed in 97801, "https://bugs. gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97801". In fact that package should also be marked as "testing" as it is also certainly not stable. The only acroread that I find is stable is v5.10, which is, ironically, hard masked....
I have been successfully using 7.0.0.2-r2 since it was marked stable about a month ago. However, after upgrading recently to 7.0.1.1 I hit this bug. Furthermore, even when I unmerge 7.0.1.1 and then emerge 7.0.0.2-r2 I now encounter the coredump with 7.0.0.2-r2.
search in the forums for this looks like many people got this problem and this seems to be solved when you remove your ~/.adobe dir see this http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-349418-highlight-acroread.html reopen if you still have problems.
For all acroread-7.* release I had to change export GCONV_PATH="/usr/lib/gconv" to export GCONV_PATH="/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/gconv" in the beginning of the acroread script. I wonder how it could work for someone (under amd64) otherwise.
Modifying the GCONV_PATH in the acroread script made it work for me. Thanks.
