[Matlab-emacs-discuss] Matlab-Shell & Sun Grid Engine

[David C. <dav...@fr...>]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm having a simple problem configuring matlab-shell-command.

The thing is I actually never run matlab locally on the machine I am logged
on, but matlab is submitted as a job to a large pool of linux machines with
the Sun Grid Engine.

 

In other words, I don't use the "matlab" command at the shell prompt, but
instead I use something like:

 

qrsh -b y -q single -V -cwd -noshell matlab

 

Now, everything works fine by default, if I set matlab-shell-command to
"matlab".

But if I set matlab-shell-command to "qrsh -b y -q single -V -cwd -noshell
matlab", a problem occurs in matlab.el (matlab-shell function), and more
specifically on this line :

 

(switch-to-buffer

      (apply 'make-comint matlab-shell-buffer-name matlab-shell-command

                           nil matlab-shell-command-switches))

 

which returns the error message

Searching for program: no such file or directory, qrsh -b y -q single -V
-cwd -noshell matlab

 

As a workaround, I have tried defining an alias in my .cshrc, something
like:

alias sge_matlab 'qrsh -b y -q single -V -cwd -noshell matlab'

 

and this works to manually start matlab from the shell. But again if I set
matlab-shell-command to "sge_matlab", then I get

apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, sge_matlab

 

So what is the proper way to get everything to work in my case ?

 

Many thanks in advance !

Cheers,

David.