Standalone octave on USB stick

[spasmous2]

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.

I apologize if this message is unclear/naive - I know I'm hacking
without a clue and really need some "big picture" help how to
accomplish what I want. Thanks.

Sam
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[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
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