Re: Question about building under Linux

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Apr-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| You have to specify -I/install/directory/include in CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS and
| -L/install/directory/lib in LIBS.

Putting -I flags in CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS will work, but you can avoid
duplication by using CPPFLAGS (options for the C/C++ preprocessor)

| If you use static libs (that's the default for SuiteSparse, then this
| suffices, but beware that CHOLMOD needs also -lmetis to work, which
| Octave's configure script doesn't try). I've worked this around by
| modifying SuiteSparse so that libmetis.a is included in libcholmod.a.

Or, build SuiteSparse so that it does not use METIS, since it is not
required for Octave to work.

jwe