Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:32:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Philippe Pouliquen <philippe@alpha.ece.jhu.edu> To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Handbook update, section 10.5... Message-ID: <20060418110404.V5712@alpha.ece.jhu.edu>
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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 Philippe Pouliquen The Johns Hopkins University
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