On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 05:34 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> stan wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:04:40 -0400
> > "William M. Quarles" <walrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> #####################################
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >>
> >> # Copyright (c) 1993-2001 by Waterloo Maple Inc.
> >> # All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication prohibited.
> >> # Permission is granted to modify this file to be appropriate
> >> # for use at the installation for which Maple was purchased.
> >>
> >> # This script runs Maple 7 with a Motif interface.
> >>
> >> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
> >>
> >> case $0 in
> >> */*) exec `dirname $0`/maple -x $*
> >> ;;
> >> *) exec maple -x $*
> >> ;;
> >> esac
> >> ######################################
> >>
> >
> > Could you change the script to something like this? Is it necessary to
> > run dirname under the old kernel version? Seems the output should be
> > the same over versions of the library.
> >
> > DIR_NAME = `dirname $0`
> >
> > export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
> >
> > case $0 in
> > */*) exec $DIR_NAME/maple -x $*
> > ;;
> > *) exec maple -x $*
> > ;;
> > esac
> >
> > In fact, I'm not sure why you have the case statement, since dirname
> > returns a . if there is no directory path.
> >
> > Should just be able to do
> >
> > DIR_NAME=`dirname $0`
> >
> > export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
> >
> > exec $DIR_NAME/maple -x $*
> >
> > Is this way off the wall? Seems like it should work.
> >
>
> Thank you for the suggestion. Actually, that is a good idea, instead I
> took it a step further by moving the "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1" to
> where the actual binary is called to be executed in the script named
> "maple." So the bottom of the "maple" script looks like this:
>
> #############
>
> if [ "$XMAPLE" ]
> then
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
> exec ${MAPLE}/$MAPLE_SYS_BIN/maplew $IPARAM $DISPLAYARG $PARAM
> else
> if [ "$IPARAM" ]
> then
> echo "$0: invalid parameters: $IPARAM"
> else
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
> exec ${MAPLE}/$MAPLE_SYS_BIN/cmaple $INCLUDES $PARAM
> fi
> fi
>
>
> ############
>
> Doing that, I get this error message:
>
> /usr/local/maple_su/bin.IBM_INTEL_LINUX/maplew: error while loading
> shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
>
> OK, does anyone else think it's bizarre that just because the FC10 glibc
> lacks LinuxThreads, that I'm getting a missing library file error when
> that library is actually installed on my system? Anyway, I guess that's
> why everyone on here is still saying to avoid closed-source software...
> anyone know of any open-source computer algebra software?
Google shows a bunch. Search for open+source+algebra. Of course it all
depends on what you want to do. I have a friend who uses some of this
stuff, but he's an algebraic geometrist. Unfortunately he's on vacation
right now so I can't ask him.
poc
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