[1943] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: matlab on RH 4.2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Dec 2 10:29:43 1997
To: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, swmaint@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 02 Dec 1997 10:23:53 -0500
In-Reply-To: Edwin Foo's message of Tue, 02 Dec 1997 10:06:02 -0500
Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I don't think I saw this in sipb-athena-bugs, but I could be wrong, so in
> that case, disregard this.
I'm pretty sure this has come up before.
> I don't know if this is a matter for the locker maintainer or for the SIPB,
> but running Matlab on the latest beta doesn't work because there's no
> /lib/elf/ld-linux.so.1. It strikes me as an odd place to look for a shared
> library, especially since symlinking /lib/ld-linux.so.1 to that location
> works just fine, but the Matlab run script won't run without it. I typed
> the following to start matlab:
Back when Linux ELF stuff was still experimental, it all went in
/lib/elf to minimize conflicts with a.out stuff. Red Hat used to have
a symlink (/lib/elf -> .) for compatibility, but apparently dropped it
in 4.2. Very few people these days still have a "real" /lib/elf, and
/lib/elf is almost certainly deprecated by now anyway, so I think the
matlab script should look in /lib instead of or in addition to
/lib/elf and tell the user to copy files into /lib if it doesn't find
what it wants.
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Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
