[1950] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: matlab on RH 4.2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Wed Dec 3 16:35:11 1997
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:34:37 -0500
To: efoo@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19971202100602.007e8ce0@po10.mit.edu> (message from
Edwin Foo on Tue, 02 Dec 1997 10:06:02 -0500)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
efoo wrote:
I don't think I saw this in sipb-athena-bugs, but I could be wrong, so
in that case, disregard this.
This is the first I've heard of it.
Running Matlab on the latest beta doesn't work because there's no
/lib/elf/ld-linux.so.1.
Oops. My fault. The /lib/elf symlink used to be created by the
athena-misc package. Here's the current relevant part of
/mit/linux/packages/package-lists:
# Commented out by svalente 5/23/97
#
#if [ ! -d /lib/elf ]; then
# ln -sf . /lib/elf
#fi
I really hoped it could go away. Oh well. I'll uncomment it and
build a new athena-misc package. In the meantime, you should just
create the symlink manually.
It strikes me as an odd place to look for a shared library.
It is. /lib/elf stored the ELF version of libc 4. AFAIK, there was
never any Linux distribution that used ELF libc 4 as the main C
library. (I manually installed in on Sipb's Linux build engine back
before the days of libc 5. I guess somebody at Matlab did too.)
For what it's worth, Matlab version 5 was built with a regular
library, so you can run it without the /lib/elf symlink.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
-Sal.
