Description of problem: It seems some linking error is returned when trying to use functionality from the symbolic library. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): octave-forge-20080429-1.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start octave 2. type one of the symbolic library commands, like, for example: sumterms 3. Actual results: error: /usr/libexec/octave/packages/symbolic-1.0.6/i386-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v32/symbols.oct: undefined symbol: _ZNK5GiNaC5basic5evalfEi Expected results: Well, maybe some error on the syntax or some results, for sure not an "undefined symbol". Additional info: A couple of notes. Typing something like: help sumterms returns with the following result: error: /usr/libexec/octave/packages/symbolic-1.0.6/i386-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v32/symbols.oct: undefined symbol: _ZNK5GiNaC5basic5evalfEi help: `sumterms' not found ... Second note, other commands, like "coeff" or "is_vpa" have same behavior. Third, the octave completion, i.e. "sumt" followed by tab, shows the command as available, that is, it completes to "sumterms". Hope this helps.
I can reproduce the problem on my F-9 box.
I can also reproduce this on F9. Furthermore there seems to be the exact same issue on Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/octave-symbolic/+bug/303845 which suggests that the issue is with upstream, not the package.
This seems to be fixed in F10, with a newer octave-forge, the 20080831. Maybe a "simple" update for F9, together with octave, would close the issue. Thanks, pg
I did a scratch build in koji for F-9: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1009132 I installed the RPM and it seems to fix the issue as per comment #3 using octave-3.0.3 that is currently in updates-testing (soon to be in stable). I'm going to commit this shortly and make a new update for octave-forge for F-9 (for updates-testing). I would love to get a some testing by the reporters here in updates-testing before pushing to stable, however.
(In reply to comment #4) [...] > I'm going to commit this shortly and make a new update for octave-forge for F-9 > (for updates-testing). I would love to get a some testing by the reporters > here in updates-testing before pushing to stable, however. That's good news. Unfortunately, I cannot help further, since I updated all the PCs to F10, so I'll not be able to test the new octave-forge. Thanks again and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. bye, pg
octave-forge-20080831-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/octave-forge-20080831-2.fc9
octave-forge-20080831-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update octave-forge'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-11605
octave-forge-20080831-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.