Re: Suitesparse libs (AMD, ..) issues during configure (Mageia-6)

[Philip Nienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 09/01/2017 09:18 AM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to build dev octave on Mageia-6 (just released) and run
> > into the
> > following during configure:
> >
> > :
> > configure:42494: checking suitesparse/amd.h usability
> > configure:42494: gcc -c -g -O2 -pthread -fopenmp   conftest.c >&5
> > configure:42494: $? = 0
> > configure:42494: result: yes
> > configure:42494: checking suitesparse/amd.h presence
> > configure:42494: gcc -E   conftest.c
> > configure:42494: $? = 0
> > configure:42494: result: yes
> > configure:42494: checking for suitesparse/amd.h
> > configure:42494: result: yes
> > configure:42505: checking for amd_postorder in -lamd
> > configure:42536: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -pthread -fopenmp     conftest.c
> > -lamd -lutil -lm   >&5
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../lib64/libamd.so:
> > undefined reference to `SuiteSparse_config'
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../lib64/libamd.so:
> > undefined reference to `SuiteSparse_free'
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../lib64/libamd.so:
> > undefined reference to `SuiteSparse_malloc'
> > :
> >
> > Octave builds fine AFAICS but to proceed further and cross-build for
> > mxe-octave, the dist target needs COLAMD and I suppose AMD / CAMD /
> > CCOLAMD
> > to build the docs.
> >
> > How can I get this fixed?
> >
> > I saw the old bug #43063 but that is quite a while back. Until a few
> > weeks
> > ago I could build Octave w/o issues on Mageia-6 RC incl suitesparse.
>
> What does
>
>   ldd /usr/lib64/libamd.so
>
> show you?  Does it include libsuitesparseconfig.so in the list of
> libraries that are linked to libamd.so?  If not, then I think maybe this
> is a configuration/build/packaging error in your version of suitesparse.

address@hidden octdev]$ ldd /usr/lib64/libamd.so
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffa4644000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007ffb17e17000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ffb17a64000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ffb18321000)

So no libsuitesparseconfig.so.
According to Mageia's package manager (rpmdrake) I do have it installed 
(lib64suitesparseconfig4)

> Even though I really think that your suitesparse libraries should be
> linked to the config library if they need it, I checked in the following
> changeset.  Does it help?

Thanks, I'll check & report back later.
I couldn't find any pkg-config files for suitesparse anywhere, I guess 
you're right, but that seems the way Mageia works.

Philip