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From: Doug Schwarz <see@sig.for.address.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: Re: Matlab will not launch, Intel Mac + Leopard
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In article <fmtikq$r1l$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
 "Steve Smith" <azalfalf@ag.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Brian Arnold <Brian.Arnold@mathworks.com> wrote in message
> <479136FA.3080705@mathworks.com>...
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Let's troubleshoot:
> > 
> > - does the bin/maci directory contain a library
> >    libboost_filesystem-1_33_1.dylib?  If it does not,
> >    then the MATLAB install is incomplete.  If it does,
> >    something may be wrong with the file; continue:
> > - what does 'file libboost_filesystem-1_33_1.dylib' return?
> >    If it does not return this:
> >    "Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386"
> >    then the file is incomplete.  
> 
> 
> libbost_filesystem-1_33_1.dylib is there (80 KB) but it does
> not return "Mach-O..." I get:
> 
> Last login: Sat Jan 19 12:13:05 on console
> /Applications/MATLAB_R2007b/bin/maci/libboost_filesystem-1_33_1.dylib
> ; exit;
> dhcp-80c4af7b:~ stevensmith$
> /Applications/MATLAB_R2007b/bin/maci/libboost_filesystem-1_33_1.dylib
> ; exit;
> -bash:
> /Applications/MATLAB_R2007b/bin/maci/libboost_filesystem-1_33_1.dylib:
> cannot execute binary file
> logout
> 
> [Process completed]
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve


No no, you don't want to try to execute the file -- it's a library.  You 
want to run the unix file program with the library as the argument, like 
so:

$ cd /Applications/MATLAB_R2007b/bin/maci
$ file libboost_filesystem-1_33_1.dylib 
libboost_filesystem-1_33_1.dylib: Mach-O dynamically linked shared 
library i386

-- 
Doug Schwarz
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