Matlab on FreeBSD 5.3

[cali]

I just got it to work, thanks to the encouragement of Santo Natale.

One thing is the architechture, to fix this you can edit the matlab binary, 
which is actually a script

gvim /usr/local/bin/matlab

or whatever

if you read down you will see some stuff about

ARCH_LIST

go down below the fucntion check_archlist and at the bottom of it you will 
see two conditionals that say:

ARCH=""

change these to

ARCH="glnx86"

or whatever your architechture is (it might be that you only need to change 
one, but this isn't important)

Then another thing to make sure is that your hostname is set the same as the 
SERVER line
in your matlab license manager file so if my hostname was "dork", then it 
would say

SERVER dork ID=XXX

where you replace XXX with your user ID

you also have to make sure that you setup your options file properly in your 
license file
you should have a line like:

DAEMON MLM /compat/linux/usr/local/matlab/etc/lm_matlab 
options=/compat/linux/usr/local/matlab/etc/MLM.opt

and in MLM.opt it needs to say:

INCLUDE MATLAB USER blah

where blah is your user, note that I'm assuming you have a standalone 
license

make sure you leave a blank line after the INCLUDE line, I know, sounds dumb 
but otherwise it doesn't work.

then you just start the flexlm (not as root)

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/flexlm.sh start

and then start matlab underthe user you were configured for

matlab

and it should work... well I only just got it working so hopefully 
everything works.

thanks

cali