Re: SuiteSparse problems

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 5, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:55 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:25 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Ed Meyer wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Robinson, Melvin D <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> Tried to build Octave from sources with the latest version of SuiteSparse. 
>>>>  It seems that the symbol SuiteSparse_time has been deprecated.  Here is 
>>>> the error message I receive
>>>> 
>>>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>>>> "_SuiteSparse_time", referenced from:
>>>>    _umfpack_tic in libumfpack.a(umfpack_gn_tictoc.o)
>>>>    _umfpack_toc in libumfpack.a(umfpack_gn_tictoc.o)
>>>> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>> make[3]: *** [liboctave.la] Error 1
>>>> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>>>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>> butterfly:octave melrobin$ port list SuiteSparse
>>>> SuiteSparse                    @4.0.0          math/SuiteSparse
>>>> 
>>>> Something similar happens on Fedora as well.  Backing down to SuiteSparse 
>>>> 3.7.1 works.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> what version of umfpack do you have - my 5.4 calls umfpack_timer but not 
>>>> SuiteSparse_time so
>>>> maybe you just need a newer umfpack
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> umfpack is part of the SuiteSparse meta-package. Correct ?
>>> 
>>>     http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/
>>> 
>>> SuiteSparse-4.0.2 has been released. I'll try a local build to see if the 
>>> problem is still present.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Building Octave with SuiteSparse-4.0.2 I still encounter the errors below 
>> (during the link phase for liboctave)
>> 
>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>> "_SuiteSparse_time", referenced from:
>>     _umfpack_tic in libumfpack.a(umfpack_gn_tictoc.o)
>>     _umfpack_toc in libumfpack.a(umfpack_gn_tictoc.o)
>> 
>> A google (link below) indicates this problem can be fixed.
>> 
>>      http://trac.macports.org/ticket/35176
>> 
>> When linking to libumfpack.a we must also link to libSuiteSparse.dylib.  I 
>> manually edited the Makefile for liboctave and added -lSuiteSparse to the 
>> UMFPACK_LIBS variable.
>> 
>>      UMFPACK_LIBS = -lumfpack -lSuiteSparse
>> 
>> liboctave now builds for me.  I'll continue with my Octave build and report 
>> back later.
> 
> My build completed, and have no new test failures (make check).
> 
> I haven't verified, but setting UMFPACK_LIBS and then running configure or 
> passing UMFPACK_LIBS to configure should resolve this.
> 
>       export UMFPACK_LIBS="-lumfpack -lSuiteSparse"
>       ./configure ...
> 
> or
> 
>       ./configure UMFPACK_LIBS="-lumfpack -lSuiteSparse" ...
> 
> Ben

Setting the UMFPACK_LIBS variable did not work.  The configure script will need 
to be fixed.  As a work around the liboctave Makefile may be manually modified.

I've opened a bug report.

        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37031

Ben