[15007] in Athena Bugs
Re: Matlab 4.2 on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Mar 14 14:18:59 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:18:55 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Ramon P Silva <ramonps@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[15006] in Athena Bugs"
> When Matlab is launched it starts working on the console, i.e., it
> does not open an additional xterm like in SUN's and SGI's.
This is intentional. While it's not strictly necessary, it makes life
easier for the Matlab startup script on Linux, since the Linux
executable is an old and very crufty ELF executable which needs the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable set, and xterm resets
LD_LIBRARY_PATH since it's a setuid program.
