[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#799412: octave-control: fails to call ss function due to undefined symbols

[Vincenzo Scotti]

Package: octave-control
Version: 2.8.3-1+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,
I installed Debian stretch a few days ago, switching from jessie.
On jessie I used octave without any problem. Now I'm having this error:

octave:1> pkg load control
octave:2> ss
error: __ss_dim__:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/control-2.8.3/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v50+/is_real_matrix.oct:
failed to load:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/control-2.8.3/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v50+/is_real_matrix.oct:
undefined symbol:
_ZNK5ArrayINSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEEE17resize_fill_valueEv
error: called from
    __ss_dim__ at line 30 column 3
        ss at line 196 column 10

As it seems to search for a c++11 symbol, I suspect some libraries got
compiled with different ABIs. When trying the upstream control package,
it doesn't compile too and fails upon installing it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages octave-control depends on:
ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]            1.2.20110419-10
ii  libc6                              2.19-19
ii  libgcc1                            1:5.2.1-17
ii  libgfortran3                       5.2.1-17
ii  liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3]        3.5.0-4
ii  liboctave3                         4.0.0-3
ii  libopenblas-base [liblapack.so.3]  0.2.14-1
ii  libquadmath0                       5.2.1-17
ii  libslicot0                         5.0+20101122-2
ii  libstdc++6                         5.2.1-17
ii  octave                             4.0.0-3

octave-control recommends no packages.

octave-control suggests no packages.

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