[14750] in Athena Bugs
Re: Matlab on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Oct 12 10:57:29 1996
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 10:57:27 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14717] in Athena Bugs"
> I found a bug in the Matlab script for Linux. The problem is that
> newer releases which already support ELF don't use /lib/elf, and
> ld-linux.so.1 is in /lib. This patch fixes the problem, allowing
> matlab to be run on such systems.
The problem here is that Matlab was built with an experimental set of
ELF tools (you may notice that it uses libc version 4) and contains a
hardcoded path of /lib/elf/ld-linux.so.1. The bug is neither in the
Red Hat installation nor in the startup script, although the startup
message is somewhat inaccurate.
(Making a symlink /lib/elf -> . at installation time is not
necessarily a bad idea.)
