Re: SuiteSparse problems

[Robinson, Melvin D]

On 8/9/12 4:47 PM, "Martin Helm" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Am 09.08.2012 23:32, schrieb Ben Abbott:
>> On Aug 9, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Martin Helm <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone has an idea how to fix that on Linux? I ran today into the same
>>>problem on openSUSE 12.2 RC2, of course I can downgrade suitesparse but
>>>that's not really clever since the default is 4.0.
>>> If not I will investigate over the weekend.
>> Did you try adding  --with-umfpack="-lumfpack -lSuiteSparse" as an
>>option to the configure script?
>>
>> Ben
>That does not help here since nothing with that name or even a similar
>one exists to link against (I naively tried of course before I looked
>deeper). Seems i have to find out if there is some build problem here
>with the rpm's coming from the prerelease repository which leads to
>something which is missing. (openSUSE 12.2 is not yet released, I am
>testing release candidates at the moment).
>I was not really sure what a dylib translates to in the Linux world,
>I'ld guess I should have an equivalent .so file here if I interpret that
>right?
>I think I will simply build the whole suitesparse stack locally here at
>the weekend to see if that is a simple packaging error or something more
>fundamental.
>Just wanted to know if someone with a Linux distro which ships
>suitesparse version 4 ran already across it and found an easy solution
>or workaround.
It is a problem across multiple platforms and I did first notice the
problem on Fedora.  I backed down to SuiteSparse 3.7 and things worked
again.  I have not tried Ben's suggestion on Fedora, but it worked on
Mountain Lion.  

What error did you get when you tried --with-umfpack="-lumfpack
-lSuiteSparse"
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