Arch Linux

Description:
The current version (17:2.78.c-2) of the blender package has undefined symbols.

Someone tried to file a bug for this upstream: https://developer.blender.org/T50581


Additional info:
* package version(s): blender-17:2.78.c-2

On my system that brought in the following extra dependencies:

alembic-1.7.1-1 blosc-1.11.3-1 jemalloc-4.5.0-1
libspnav-0.2.3-1 log4cplus-1.2.0-3 opencollada-20150702-3
opencolorio-1.0.9-5 openimageio-1.7.13-1
openshadinglanguage-1.7.5-1 opensubdiv-3.1.1-1 openvdb-3.2.0-2
ptex-2.0.62-2 snappy-1.1.4-1 zstd-1.1.4-1

Steps to reproduce:
$ pacman -Syyuu
$ pacman -S blender --noconfirm
$ blender
blender: symbol lookup error: blender: undefined symbol: _ZTIN7Alembic3Abc2v97OObjectE

Workaround:
Downloading the current PKGBUILD and building it unmodified using makepkg results in a working binary.

Someone else tried to report this to the blender developers and got shot down because it's not an upstream problem:
https://developer.blender.org/T50581