Handbook update, section 10.5...

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-04-18 13:32, Philippe Pouliquen <philippe at alpha.ece.jhu.edu> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> There doesn't seem to be a way of contacting Dan Pelleg (author
> of section 10.5 of the FreeBSD handbook) directly, so here is
> my input on installing Matlab under FreeBSD:
>
> The errors of the form:
>
> [: -ne: unary operator expected
>
> which occur when starting Matlab or the FlexLM license manager
> can be resolved by setting the environment variable EXPR_COMPAT
> in the Matlab startup script (the one that goes in
> /usr/local/bin) and in the FlexLM startup script (the one that
> goes in /usr/local/etc/rc.d).
>
> I think this is preferable to the fix recommended by Dan Pelleg
> in section 10.5.4, which requires hand editing of all
> incompatible uses of the test ([) command in all the shell
> scripts in the Matlab installation directory.
>
> I have used the following lines for this:
>
> EXPR_COMPAT=true
> export EXPR_COMPAT

I don't have Linux emulation or MATLAB.  If at least one more person can
verify that this indeed works, let me know and I'll handle the SGML stuff.

Regards,
Giorgos

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