IDL crashes, undefined symbol: _xstat

[Jim Crumley <crumley@belka.space.umn.edu>]

Hi,

I am running an updated yesterday potato/x86 system.  I get the following
error when I try to run IDL (Interactive Data Language from RSI) 5.2 :

/usr/local/rsi/idl_5.2/bin/bin.linux/idl: error in loading shared libraries: /us
r/local/rsi/idl_5.2/bin/bin.linux/libidl.so.5.2: undefined symbol: _xstat

IDL used to work for me, but I haven't used it for a few months, so it
might have been the upgrade from potato to slink that broke it. Has
anyone else had this problem?  Does anyone else use IDL with a potato
system?

Anyway, from the error message it seems to me that the symbol _xstat
has been removed, or moved to a different library.  So does anyone
know if that has happened? Does anyone know what library provides/
provided _xstat?  Also, what's the command that lists what
functions a library provides?

The output of ldd on idl is :
:/usr/local/rsi/idl_5.2/bin/bin.linux> ldd idl
        libidl.so.5.2 => ./libidl.so.5.2 (0x40014000)
        libMesaGLU.so.3 => ./libMesaGLU.so.3 (0x40566000)
        libMesaGL.so.3 => ./libMesaGL.so.3 (0x4057b000)
        libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x4064c000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40654000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40662000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4066f000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x406b7000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x406c0000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x406d6000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40775000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40779000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40797000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Thanks for the help.

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