Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 18:24:51 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Philippe Pouliquen <philippe@alpha.ece.jhu.edu> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Handbook update, section 10.5... Message-ID: <20060512152451.GB25843@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060418110404.V5712@alpha.ece.jhu.edu> References: <20060418110404.V5712@alpha.ece.jhu.edu>
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--ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On 2006-04-18 13:32, Philippe Pouliquen <philippe@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 --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEZKjD1g+UGjGGA7YRAsPgAJ4jDhEvA9PFmQElPo30a9Xu6Ke8qACgmHEI /pW0s7gpmdc+7zCTNW5QOb0= =8YKj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd--
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