[23655] in Athena Bugs
Re: Alex T Prengel: strange path-related launch problem with gathrun/attachandrun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Mon Aug 18 19:42:12 2003
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:42:10 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200308182342.h7INgASv013433@brad-majors.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
CC: bugs@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU, csnowden@MIT.EDU, jamous@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[23651] in Athena Bugs"
This is a bug in your installation of Mathematica, not in
gathrun/attachandrun. attachandrun doesn't do anything to your PATH,
never has, and isn't supposed to; it's responsible for attaching a
locker and exec'ing a binary out of it; gathrun is just a utility shell
script that calls attachandrun and gdialog.
The problem is this little snippit of code from
/mit/math_v4.2/arch/i386_linux24/bin/mathematica:
[snip]
topdir=/afs/athena/software/math_v4.2/distrib
sysid=Linux-dyn
PATH=$topdir/Executables/$sysid:$PATH
export PATH
[snip]
[zacheiss@brad-majors] ~$ ls -l /afs/athena/software/math_v4.2/distrib/Executables/Linux-dyn
/afs/athena/software/math_v4.2/distrib/Executables/Linux-dyn: No such file or directory
[zacheiss@brad-majors] ~$ ls -l /afs/athena/software/math_v4.2/distrib/Executables/Linux
total 20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 20353 mit 1568 Apr 28 19:48 MathKernel
lrwxr-xr-x 1 20353 mit 11 Nov 14 2002 Mathematica -> mathematica
lrwxr-xr-x 1 20353 mit 10 Nov 14 2002 math -> MathKernel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 20353 mit 1761 Apr 28 19:48 mathematica
-rwxr-xr-x 1 20353 mit 440 Nov 14 2002 mcc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 20353 mit 1001 Nov 14 2002 orig.MathKernel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 20353 mit 1179 Nov 14 2002 orig.mathematica
so the mathematica script is trying to put the directory it needs in its
path, but failing because it doesn't exit. Apparently the
Linux/Linux-dyn difference is important, because there are two different
binaries in:
/afs/athena/software/math_v4.2/distrib/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries{Linux,Linux-dyn}
I'd recommend just making a Linux-dyn -> Linux symlink in
/afs/athena/software/math_v4.2/distrib/Executables, which should allow
the existing script to continue working as is. You may also want to
make one in /afs/athena/software/math_v4.2/distrib/SystemFiles/Libraries
which contains only a "Linux" directory; the "mathematica" front end
script tries to put:
/afs/athena/software/math_v4.2/distrib/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-dyn
in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Garry
