Re: Standalone octave on USB stick

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 01/27/12 12:17, spasmous wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to carry octave around with me on a USB stick. I've
> compiled octave 3.05 (on Suse 11.4) and it runs fine on that machine.
> The problem I am having is how to copy it over to a USB stick. I
> copied the entire build directory and launch with ./run-octave.
>
> I type ldd octave to see the dependencies and copy all the .so files
> into a directory on the USB stick "lib" inside the build directory
> then add this to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> However when I try to ./run-octave from the USB stick on a new
> machine, it doesn't work. It looks like maybe octave is looking for
> the .so files using absolute paths for the original machine rather
> than in my "lib" directory.

On the new machine, you need to use ldconfig to locate yhour <mount>/lib 
directory.

Look at ldconfig and its config files.

Tom Dean