Re: UMFPACK Installation Problem

[Quentin Spencer]

Krishnan V wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to install octave 2.9.9  on computers in the lab.  The OS 
> are RHEL 3 and Centos 4.3.
> There is no sparse matrix support and make check failed with a 
> seg-fault.  make went of nicely.
> i am facing problems installing sparse matrix suite. I downloaded the 
> SparseSuite package from the website and am installing the latest 
> version of UMFPack( 5.0.1).
> After turning down the optimisation to -O, i did make and got the 
> following error:
> /********************************************************************************/
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/root/SuiteSparse/UMFPACK/Source'
> gcc -fexceptions -Wall -W -Werror -Wshadow -Wmissing-prototypes 
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs 
> -Wdisabled-optimization -ansi   -I../Include -I../../AMD/Include 
> -I../../UFconfig -DDINT -c umf_analyze.c -o umf_i_analyze.o
> umf_analyze.c:75: warning: no previous prototype for 'umf_i_analyze'
> umf_analyze.c: In function `umf_i_analyze':
> umf_analyze.c:93: warning: ignoring #pragma ivdep
> umf_analyze.c:580: warning: ignoring #pragma novector
> gmake[1]: *** [umf_i_analyze.o] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/SuiteSparse/UMFPACK/Source'
> make: *** [library] Error 2
> /****************************************************************************/ 
>
> can anyone help me with this? This is not the mailing list for UMFPack 
> but i would be grateful for any help,
> other info:gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 20051201:OS Centos 4.3
>
> Thanks
> krishnan

I think you need to build all of SuiteSparse (called UFsparse until a 
few weeks ago) because there are some dependencies between the 
libraries. Since you're dealing with RedHat and CentOS, and Fedora has 
ufsparse RPMs, I'd suggest that you try rebuilding the Fedora SRPM. It 
can be found at 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/SRPMS/ufsparse-2.1.0-1.fc6.src.rpm

Quentin