On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> wrote:
and it's linked into other libraries in the build okay.  What else could be going on?

Add "export LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro" just above your %configure line.  If that fixes the build, then scilab is yet another victim of -z now breaking lazily loaded modules.  I have several packages that have been broken by that.
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