[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#512075: octave-symbolic: Undefined symbol

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

Package: octave-symbolic
Version: 1.0.6-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

It seems that the symbolic computation commands provided by the octave-symbolic
package fail with an "undefined symbol" error message, e.g:

octave:3> Cos(1.9);
error: /usr/lib/octave/packages/symbolic-1.0.6/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v32/symbols.oct: 
undefined symbol: _ZNK5GiNaC5basic5evalfEi
error: `Cos' undefined near line 3 column 1


I found an Ubuntu bug report describing the same problem here:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/universe-bugs/2008-December/026221.html

Best regards,
Torquil Sørensen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave-symbolic depends on:
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3.1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-2         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.2-2           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-6           library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090110-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-2           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  octave3.0              1:3.0.1-6lenny1   GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

octave-symbolic recommends no packages.

octave-symbolic suggests no packages.

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