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Re: For which versions of RH Linux does IDL 4.01b work?
Lev Tarasoff wrote: > I've got a linux version of IDL 4.01b that was set up > on RedHat Linux 4.0. However, I have just upgraded my > PC workstation to Redhat 6.0 (2.2.5-15 kernel) and I > can't even get the IDL install routine to work. Is > there any way to make it work on this version of RH linux? > If not, what is the most recent version of RH linux that > could be made to work with IDL 4.01b? If you want to stick with Redhat 6.0, you'll need to upgrade to IDL 5.2, which you can download from ftp://ftp.rsinc.com/pub/idl/unix/ To get IDL 5.2 to work under Redhat 6.0, a patch is required. The instructions below were posted by Olivier Archer (mailto:oarcher@ifremer.fr), and have been used here successfully for two different Linux systems. ---start quote--- Here's another way to get around the problem. The goal is to define the setfpucw function __setpucw.c: void __setfpucw(void) { } void __libc_init(void) { } void _dl_symbol_value() { } Compile it: #gcc -fPIC -c __setfpucw.c #ld -shared -o __setfpucw.so -assert pure-text __setfpucw.o define the LD_PRELOAD environnement variable before launching idl: #export LD_PRELOAD=/?/?/__setfpucw.so ---end quote--- Cheers, Liam. -- Liam E. Gumley Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley