Gary,

So I assume from your contact with Matlab that they think the version 
that you have should work ok on RHEL4 x86_64.

-Connie Sieh
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Stephan 
Wiesand wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Gary Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Gary Wilson wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I've just set up a dual Opteron machine with SL4 x86_64. I have to run an 
> >>> old version of Matlab on this, which won't run with the 64 bit xorg-x11 
> >>> libraries. The folks at Matlab suggested that there are 32-bit 
> >>> compatibility libraries for Red Hat ES 4 that will fix this problem, but I 
> >>> can't find this in SL 4. Anyone know where these compatility libraries can 
> >>> be found?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> x86_64/SL/RPMS/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-23.EL.i386.rpm & co.?
> >> 
> >> Try "yum install xorg-x11-libs.i386" etc.
> >> 
> >>> Gary Wilson
> >>> [log in to unmask]
> >>> 
> >> 
> > Thanks. I had those installed, so I thought that maybe there was something 
> > else that I was missing. What I do see is that when I look at the ldconfig 
> > cache the 64 bit library appears first, so I'm guessing that it sees that and 
> > stops there. Now I'm looking to see if there is a way to reverse the order in 
> > which the libraries are found.
> 
> The dynamic loader won't consider using 64-bit libraries for 32-bit 
> executables. Are you sure it's missing shared libs? Please try running ldd 
> on your executable as Connie suggested (this may not be trivial as these 
> commercial executables tend to be hidden under layers and layers of 
> wrapper scripts...).
> 
> Once you're sure it's not due to some missing shared libs, you may want to 
> try running it after an "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19" (or even 2.4.1).
> I think Matlab <=6 comes with an elderly JVM that's not NPTL-compatible.
> 
> Stephan
> 
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