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Re: Has anybody gotten MathLink Modules to compile using Linux Mandrake 8.0

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg28898] Re: Has anybody gotten MathLink Modules to compile using Linux Mandrake 8.0
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:13:02 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
• References: <9e02ta$30q@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

Mandrake 7.2 is based on the RedHat packages and you need the
RedHat/glibc21 version of the libML.a library.
It can be found at:

http://support.wolfram.com/MathLink/Linux/glibc21.html

Regards
  Jens

msh wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to run /compile a mathlink module under Mandrake 8.0 (with
> kernel version 2.4.3-20mdk installed).  I've tried several things
> 
> Using a mathlink module compiled under the 2.2 kernel (that works fine
> under Mandrake 7.2 -- kernel 2.2.17-21mdk)
> 
> Using a mathlink module compiled under kernel 2.4.3-20mdk. (compilation
> proceeds without a problem using the make file below)
> 
> Using either compiled mathlink executable under Mandrake 8.0 Mathematica
> reports that there was an error connecting with the mathlink object.
> 
> I am running this test using a notebook that works fine under Mandrake
> 7.2.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?  Does anybody have a suggested
> workaround?  Is the problem kernel related or has something else also
> changed to break things (networking is completely different, the
> compiler is different...).
> 
> Finally, why not turn at least the linux version of MathLink into an
> open source project so that problems like this can be identified earlier
> (during beta testing of the kernel) and more quickly.
> 
> Thanks