What is worse, I wrote one workaround on the mapleprimes site, and
they deleted it!
So, if you copy over shared libraries from an older linux (eg. ubuntu
11.10),
everything from from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and libX* libx* from /usr/
lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
to a directory under your maple15 install directory, and tweak
LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the maple wrapper script,
it works.
On mapleprimes, they claim that the bug is due to a changed hflogb in
some of the libraries, but I was unable to find which lib this is
implemented in.
If we knew that, one could take hflogb, and the functions that depend
on it, from an older libc source, compile it into a separate shared
library,
and load it before maple using LD_PRELOAD.
-- Geza