Re: symbolic toolbox returns error

[lombardo]

Hi,

Thanks a lot Søren.
 Indeed I thought I had all the Ginac stuff needed. There doesn't seem
to be a ginac-devel for (k)ubuntu. I have already installed ginac-tools,
libginac1.4 and libginac-dev. So these don't seem to be substitutes for
ginac-devel. Is that correct?

In any case I re-installed Ginac compiling it from source (the
installation checks seemed to be all passed)

After re-installed the symbolic package I still get the error message

octave-3.0.0:3> symbols
error: 
/home/lombardo/octave/symbolic-1.0.6/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v32/symbols.oct: 
undefined symbol: _ZNK5GiNaC5basic5evalfEi

What might have gone wrong?

Gianni



On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 20:11 +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ons, 20 08 2008 kl. 09:55 +0200, skrev lombardo:
> > Hope it is ok to post this help request here
> 
> That's what this list is for, so it's more than okay :-)
> 
> > pkg install /home/lombardo/Desktop/symbolic-1.0.6.tar.gz
> > 
> > Then I get
> > 
> > octave-3.0.0:2> x=sym("a")
> > error: 
> > /home/lombardo/octave/symbolic-1.0.6/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v32/symbols.oct: 
> > undefined symbol: _ZNK5GiNaC5basic5evalfEi
> > error: `sym' undefined near line 2 column 3
> > error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2, column 2
> > 
> > Anybody having a clue about what I might be missing?
> 
> That package page for the 'symbolic' package
> (http://octave.sourceforge.net/symbolic/index.html) contains the
> following:
> 
> License: GPL version 2 or later
> Web page: http://octave.sf.net
> Dependencies: octave (>= 2.9.7)
> buildrequires:ginac-devel
> autoload:yes
> 
> The interesting part is the 'buildrequires' line. This means you have to
> install the 'ginac-devel' package from the Kubuntu repositories (using
> 'synaptic', 'apt-get' or whatever tool you use to install packages).
> 
> Good luck,
> Søren
>