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Re: Problem with IDL 5.3/SuSE Linux 6.1 [message #19922]

Thu, 27 April 2000 00:00

John-David T. Smith is currently offline

John-David T. Smith
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"Christian B. Westermann" wrote:
>
> Hi
> When I try to run IDL 5.3 on my SuSE Linux 6.1 system I got the following error
> message:
>
> /usr/local/rsi/idl_5.3/bin/bin.linux/idl: error in loading shared libraries
> /usr/local/rsi/idl_5.3/bin/bin.linux/libidl.so.5.3: undefined symbol:
> fetestexcept
>
> How can this problem be solved?
>

Upgrade to a glibc2.1 linux, such as RedHat >=6.0, or Suse >=6.2. Older
versions, which employ glibc2.0.x, will not work. Another option would be to
downgrade to IDLv5.2. Though RSI doesn't note this on their website, 5.3 for
Linux was built with a Redhat 6.x variant.

Good Luck,

JD

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