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soya package

unable to import soya due to undefined symbol

Bug #780305 reported by Jeffrey Finkelstein
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soya (Debian)
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soya (Ubuntu)
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Natty
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Bug Description

Run python2.7 on Ubuntu 11.04, try to import soya and you get the following backtrace:

Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:05:24)
[GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import soya
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/soya/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
    from soya._soya import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/soya/_soya.so: undefined symbol: gluTessVertex

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: python-soya 0.15~rc1-3build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 10 00:55:43 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: soya
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Related branches

lp:~jtaylor/ubuntu/oneiric/soya/fix-780305
Michael Terry: Approve
Ubuntu branches: Pending requested
Diff: 55 lines (+35/-0)
3 files modified
debian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/patches/link-with-gl-and-glu.patch (+27/-0)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
lp:ubuntu/oneiric/soya
lp:debian/soya
lp:ubuntu/natty-proposed/soya
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Jeffrey Finkelstein (jfinkels) wrote :
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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote :

attached patch fixes the issue by explicitly linking against libGLU.
It seems to be caused by the new toolchain but debian is not affected even with --as-needed and --no-add-needed.

tags: added: patch
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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote :

the reason is probably that libGLEW is not linked against libGLU in natty.
Forwarded upstream.
http://gna.org/bugs/index.php?18131

Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in soya (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package soya - 0.15~rc1-3ubuntu1

---------------
soya (0.15~rc1-3ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/link-with-gl-and-glu.patch:
    link soya against gl and glu which it uses directly (LP: #780305)
 -- Julian Taylor <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:00:54 +0200

Changed in soya (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

I've uploaded a fix to natty-proposed and subscribed ubuntu-sru for this regression. Please test and report back.

Changed in soya (Ubuntu Natty):
status: New → Triaged
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Jeffrey, or anyone else affected,

Accepted soya into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in soya (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in soya (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Jeffrey Finkelstein (jfinkels) wrote :

This is fixed with the package from natty-proposed.

Martin Pitt (pitti)
tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package soya - 0.15~rc1-3ubuntu0.1

---------------
soya (0.15~rc1-3ubuntu0.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/link-with-gl-and-glu.patch:
    link soya against gl and glu which it uses directly (LP: #780305)
 -- Julian Taylor <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:00:54 +0200

Changed in soya (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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