MATLAB: Doesn’t MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1) launch on the SPARCstation5 machine

Upon startup on a SPARCstation5 machine running Solaris 8, the following error message appears:
% /usr/local/matlab701/bin/matlab
ld.so.1: /work/local/matlab701/bin/sol2/MATLAB:
fatal:/usr/local/matlab701/bin/sol2/libfftw3.so.3: bad ELF flags value:
768
Killed

Best Answer

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:
"bad ELF flags value" usually means that there is the program is compiled with some flag that is not compatibile to the lowest common denominator.
Development has supplied newly compiled libraries in order to resolve this startup issue.
1. Place the attached libfftw.tar.gz file in /$MATLAB/bin/sol2/ directory (Where $MATLAB is your root MATLAB directory)
2. From the above directory, do the following ommands to extract the file:
gunzip libfftw.tar.gz
tar xvf libfftw.tar
3. Restart MATLAB. MATLAB should now launch properly on this machine.
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