A couple of weeks ago I posted this message: > Software: > - RedHat 5.1 (i386), with all the current updates (including netscape 4.06). > - Acrobat reader 3.01 (installed using the acrobat-3.01-1.nosrc.rpm at > ftp.redhat.com with some minor modifications to the spec file). > > I am having a hell of a time trying to get acrobat reader working as a > "helper application" with netscape. It just doesn't work. After much > investigation, it seems that acroread is segfaulting somewhere in the > shared libraries (strace output is vague, and gdb gives no useful > information from the core dump). [...] After a lot of experimentation and a few good hits from some people around here, I found a solution to this problem (not, unfortunately, as a result of this post), and I thought that others might like to know how to do it. Edit the "acroread" wrapper script (/usr/Acrobat3/bin/acroread, or whatever), and add this line near the top: export -n LD_PRELOAD Simple, and it allows Acrobat reader to run from within netscape 4.06. However, I have no idea how to get the plugin to work :-( (I haven't tried modifying the netscape wrapper scripts to remove the LD_PRELOAD variable). Cheers Tony
