Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:42:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+handbook@pelleg.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/57025: minor fixes to handbook: linux emulation for MATLAB Message-ID: <20030919214220.4EA2A77E@lank.here> Resent-Message-ID: <200309192150.h8JLoHgH054912@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 57025
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: minor fixes to handbook: linux emulation for MATLAB
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 19 14:50:17 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dan Pelleg
>Release: FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD l 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #5: Tue Sep 16 20:15:41 EDT 2003 d@p:/L i386
>Description:
Minor corrections and additions to linuxemu-matlab. Java run-time fixes.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.sgml.orig Fri Sep 19 16:22:53 2003
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.sgml Fri Sep 19 17:36:24 2003
@@ -694,6 +694,12 @@
url="http://www.mathworks.com"></ulink>. Make sure you also get
the license file or instructions how to create it.</para>
+ <para>The Mathworks claim that they "will decide if &os distributions
+ will be supported in future versions of
+ <application>MATLAB</application>". Help them decide by requesting a
+ native &os version at <ulink
+ url="http://www.mathworks.com/support/contactus.shtml"></ulink>.
+
<sect2>
<title>Installing &matlab;</title>
@@ -808,6 +814,12 @@
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/usr/local/etc/rc.d/flexlm.sh start</userinput></screen>
</step>
+ <step>
+ <para>Fix the <application>&java;</application> run-time link to be one
+ that works under &os:
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd $MATLAB/sys/java/jre/glnx86/</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>unlink jre; ln -s ./jre1.1.8 ./jre</userinput></screen>
+ </step>
</procedure>
</sect2>
@@ -837,11 +849,12 @@
<para>At this point you are ready to type
<command>matlab</command> and start using it. Note that the
version of <application>&java;</application> shipped with
- <application>&matlab;</application> does not work under
- &os;. Therefore you will have to start
- <application>&matlab;</application> with either the
- <option>-nojvm</option> or the <option>-nodesktop</option>
- switch.</para>
+ <application>&matlab;</application> does not work well under
+ &os;. It will make it hard to quit <application>&matlab;</application>
+ and you will have to <command>kill -9</command> it. If you don't use
+ <application>&java;</application> at all, you can avoid this nuisance
+ by starting <application>&matlab;</application> with the
+ <option>-nojvm</option> switch.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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