Bug 1244844 - octave-specfun: shadowing of core library functions
Summary: octave-specfun: shadowing of core library functions
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: octave-specfun
Version: 22
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Sailer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-07-20 15:13 UTC by chris
Modified: 2016-07-19 17:05 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 17:05:52 UTC
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Description chris 2015-07-20 15:13:32 UTC
Description of problem:
on startup:

warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/erfcinv.m shadows a built-in function
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/expint.m shadows a core library function
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/ellipke.m shadows a core library function
warning: function /usr/lib64/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v49+/ellipj.oct shadows a built-in function



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm -qa octave*
octave-general-1.3.4-1.fc22.x86_64
octave-specfun-1.1.0-9.fc22.x86_64
octave-control-2.6.6-1.fc22.x86_64
octave-3.8.2-18.fc22.x86_64
octave-signal-1.3.0-3.fc22.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install octave and octave-specfun
2. start octave
3.

Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

you find bug reports about that on various distributions e.g. 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741036
but i found none for fedora.

Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2015-07-31 22:17:33 UTC
From John Eaton:

This patch seems to take care of it:

  http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/specfun/rev/153e6946b5cb

so the next release of the specfun package should fix this problem.

jwe

Comment 2 Mark van Rossum 2016-01-12 11:20:04 UTC
Still there in fc23
octave-specfun-1.1.0-12.fc23.x86_64

quick fix:
sudo rm /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/expint.m /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/ellipke.m /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/erfcinv.m /usr/lib64/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v50+/ellipj.oct

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 17:05:52 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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