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Why do I receive a warning message about GLIBC incompatibility when I start MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a) or newer on a system with glibc 2.3.4?
Date Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009
| Solution ID: | 1-5YTXCE | |
| Product: | MATLAB | |
| Reported in Release: | R2008b | |
| Platform: | Linux | |
| Operating System: | Redhat Any |
Subject:
Why do I receive a warning message about GLIBC incompatibility when I start MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a) or newer on a system with glibc 2.3.4?
Problem Description:
When starting MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a) or MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b) on a Linux machine with glibc 2.3.4 such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, I receive the following warning message:
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Warning: glibc 2.3.4 - Unsupported version
glibc 2.3.6 - MATLAB built using this version
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-> Your configuration APPEARS to be too OLD to run this MATLAB program!
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For system requirements consult http://www.mathworks.com ...
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MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a) also prompts me to continue:
-> Best to quit by pressing <return> at the next prompt ...
Do you still want to try to continue? (y/[n]) >
Solution:MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a) and newer were built using glibc 2.3.6 and thus expect to be run on a machine with glibc 2.3.6. However, there are some distributions of Linux with glibc 2.3.4 that are supported for use with MATLAB (Red Hat Enterprise 4 is one example). See the system requirements page for the complete list here: (where $MATLABROOT is the MATLAB root directory). Once replaced, MATLAB will still warn on startup, but it will not prompt the user to continue. |
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