octave: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 1/24/2014 6:11 PM, Paul wrote:
> I use both Windows and cygwin X11 gvim -- mostly the former out of
> convenience and speed.  I often shell out for filtering, and I'm careful to
> ensure that my vimrc shell setting directs commands to cygwin's bash:
>
>     let &shell='set HOME=c:\cygwin\home\'.$USERNAME.'&
>                                            \ c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -i'
>
> However, I recently started to get the following message when sending
> expressions to octave:
>
>     /usr/bin/octave-3.6.2.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?:
>     cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> I know there there isn't anything *fundamentally* wrong because when I
> start up cygwin normally via the mintty shortcut, octave starts fine.  I
> thought it was a $PATH problem, so I rejigged .bashrc to ensure that the
> path is the same regardless of whether I start bash from the mintty
> shortcut or shell out from Windows gvim.  This does not solve the problem.
> I confirmed that $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is empty regardless of how bash is
> started up, so I don't think that's the problem.
>
> Can anyone suggest what might be causing the octave error if not $PATH and
> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH?  Again, there is no problem when invoked from a bash
> shell that is started from the mintty shortcut.  Furthermore, there was no
> problem at all before a few days ago.  The only big change is that my admin
> deleted Matlab 2012a, but I have Matlab 2013a (in a different path).  But
> the fact that octave runs from a normally started bash tells me that this
> should not be a show stopper (if in fact it's even the cause).
>
> Note that I work in a locked down environment, so I can't upgrade anything
> and downloading stuff is hit-and-miss.

Have you tried running rebaseall?


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Larry

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