Error When Using MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox on Linux
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Users of MATLAB 7 on Linux have reported that any attempt to perform symbolic
calculations results in "Invalid MEX-file" error, as in this session:
syms a b; a+b; ??? Invalid MEX-file '/opt/matlab7/toolbox/symbolic/maplemex.mexglx': /opt/matlab7/bin/glnx86/libmaple.so: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference. Error in ==> maple at 104 [result,status] = maplemex(statement); Error in ==> sym.maple at 85 [result,status] = maple(statement); Error in ==> sym.plus at 22 X = maple(A(:),'+',B(:));
This bug is due to an incompatibility between the Maple library code and the
C library on your system.
If you are using tcsh as your shell, the workaround is to set an environment variable before invoking MATLAB:
setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.19 matlab
If you are using bash as your shell, the workaround is:
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 matlab