Trevin Beattie wrote:

> The problem with the Linux program is that when I try to run the binary, it
> tells me "acroread: can't load library 'libreadcore.so'".

  Acrobat reader comes with a wrapper script that sets up LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  
This script has to be adapted to NetBSD.  You don't have to do this by hand, 
though, since there is an "acroread" package for NetBSD.

> But ldd claims that acroread is not a dynamic executable.

  You probably used NetBSD's 'ldd', which is the wrong 'ldd' for Linux
programs.  With Linux' 'ldd' you will get:

  > setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/pkg/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib:/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
  > /emul/linux/usr/bin/ldd /usr/pkg/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
        libreadcore.so => /usr/pkg/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libreadcore.so (0x4000b000)
        libAGM.so => /usr/pkg/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libAGM.so (0x401c5000)
        libCoolType.so => /usr/pkg/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libCoolType.so (0x402e5000)
        libICC.so => /usr/pkg/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libICC.so (0x40516000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x405bd000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x405ff000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4060c000)
        libm.so.5 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5 (0x406ad000)
        libdl.so.1 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libdl.so.1 (0x406b6000)
        libc.so.5 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 (0x406b9000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40775000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4077e000)

> I installed the Linux compatibility library from NetBSD's package
> collection and ran ldconfig  with all the new library directories,
> but acroread still couldn't load the required libraries.

  Have you tried using the 'acroread' package from the NetBSD package
collection?  This should work find if you run the
'/usr/pkg/bin/acroread4' wrapper script installed with the package.

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene