Re: problems installing octave-forge on Altix machine (64 bit)

[David Bateman]

Michael,

I try to give some quick responses embedded in your text..

Michael Baginski a écrit :

> checking umfpack/umfpack.h usability... yes
> checking umfpack/umfpack.h presence... yes
> checking for umfpack/umfpack.h... yes
> checking for amd_postorder in -lamd... yes
> checking for umfpack_zi_get_determinant in -lumfpack... no
> checking for umfpack_zi_get_determinant in -lumfpack... no
> checking for umfpack_zi_get_determinant in -lumfpack... no
> ./configure: line 13119: ,: command not found
The fact that you can't find *determinant seems to imply to me that you 
aren't using version 4.4 of UMFPACK. Unfortunately you have to use 
version 4.4 that was release earlier this year as it is this version 
that introduced (with a push from me) C99 complex argument calling 
conventions that octave needs. It also introduced the determinant 
functions for the use of octave. However, you shouldn't get the 
configure error here, it seems I have a bug in the case where UMFPACK is 
installed but isn't version 4.4... I'll take a look at what the problem 
is there, but if you install version 4.4 of UMFPACK you should get this 
issue.

> Here's the make file for UMFPACK that I used.  UMFPACK was painful as 
> well and I'm not
> sure this is 64 bit...
>
> Demos were segfaulting with the 64bit version of scsl
That I can't answer as I don't have access to a 64bit machine... You 
might like to take it up with Tim Davis directly...

> #6: Altix 350 scsl
> CONFIG = -DCBLAS
> LIB = -lscs -lm
Do you really need the C calling conventions to BLAS? I suspect you'd be 
better off without the "-DCBLAS" flag as it latter means that we need to 
include cblas.


Its a pity you can't use some of the octav-forge toolboxes, but getting 
octave itself compiled is more important.

Regards
David



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