Why do I receive errors about a missing libf77compat.so.1 file when starting MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1) on a Solaris 9 machine?

Question

MathWorks Support Team on 27 Jun 2009

When I try to startup MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1) on my Solaris 9 machine I receive the following error message:

 Error Messages: ld.so.1: /opt/matlab/R14/Solaris/bin/sol2/MATLAB: fatal: libf77compat.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
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Note that MATLAB R14SP1 was installed using downloads with no error message.

Answer 1

MathWorks Support Team on 27 Jun 2009

This problem has been fixed in MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2). If you are using a previous version, please upgrade to this version.