Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 11:39:21 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matlab 5.3 Message-ID: <37564D49.81B57144@scc.nl> References: <14165.38910.206452.281058@knock.econ.vt.edu>, <19990602235040.B5623@stat.Duke.EDU>
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Sean O'Connell wrote:
>
> On 1999 Jun 02, Russell D. Murphy Jr. (aka rdmurphy@neale.econ.vt.edu) wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying (again) without success to install Matlab. I'm using:
>
> There are two main ways of doing this.
>
> 1) Use a supported platform (a linux box or actually a digital unix or
> sun or whatever will also unpack the linux distribution too) to unpack
> it onto an nfs mount or a local directory, tar it up and change the
> MATLABDIR stuff, and modify a few other key scripts that use the
> /bin/uname command and look for linux (Linux?) and lie to them :).
A more structural approach is to install sh-utils-*.rpm, which includes
uname and to apply my uname patch. That way you don't have to edit scripts:
scones% /compat/linux/bin/uname
Linux
scones% /usr/bin/uname
FreeBSD
> *this is critical; /bin/tar is hard coded into the tsetup and xsetup
> linux executables...grrr, this caused the majority of my troubles*
Isn't this solved by installing tar-*.tpm?
> + elif [ -f /usr/bin/uname ]; then # FreeBSD?
> + case "`/usr/bin/uname`" in
> + FreeBSD)
> + Arch="lnx86"
> + ;;
> + esac
See point 1.
> 6) while you have these tar files unpacked, there is one more little hack that
> has to get put in in the osversion check business: (sorry I don't have
> a diff convenient)
Does it actually expects a version like x.y.z?
Currently the patch produces something like the following:
scones% /compat/linux/bin/uname -a
Linux scones.sup.scc.nl 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Jun 2
15:24:26 CEST 1999
marcel i386 unknown
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