UMFPACK On SGI Altix 350

[Charles Wright]

David Bateman wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I try to give some quick responses embedded in your text..
>
> Michael Baginski a écrit :
>
> > checking umfpack/umfpack.h usability... yes
> > checking umfpack/umfpack.h presence... yes
> > checking for umfpack/umfpack.h... yes
> > checking for amd_postorder in -lamd... yes
> > checking for umfpack_zi_get_determinant in -lumfpack... no
> > checking for umfpack_zi_get_determinant in -lumfpack... no
> > checking for umfpack_zi_get_determinant in -lumfpack... no
> > ./configure: line 13119: ,: command not found
> The fact that you can't find *determinant seems to imply to me that you 
> aren't using version 4.4 of UMFPACK. Unfortunately you have to use 
> version 4.4 that was release earlier this year as it is this version 
> that introduced (with a push from me) C99 complex argument calling 
> conventions that octave needs. It also introduced the determinant 
> functions for the use of octave. However, you shouldn't get the 
> configure error here, it seems I have a bug in the case where UMFPACK is 
> installed but isn't version 4.4... I'll take a look at what the problem 
> is there, but if you install version 4.4 of UMFPACK you should get this 
> issue.

The UMFPACK that I'm using is v4.4  I'm not confident that it compiled 
correctly.
I tried multiple options to get it to compile.  I would imagine that it would 
be best with

Tim can I offer you an account to on our system and ask you to help me compile it with 64 
bit sgi scsl?




> > Here's the make file for UMFPACK that I used.  UMFPACK was painful as 
> > well and I'm not
> > sure this is 64 bit...
> >
> > Demos were segfaulting with the 64bit version of scsl
> That I can't answer as I don't have access to a 64bit machine... You 
> might like to take it up with Tim Davis directly...
>
> > #6: Altix 350 scsl
> > CONFIG = -DCBLAS
> > LIB = -lscs -lm
> Do you really need the C calling conventions to BLAS? I suspect you'd be 
> better off without the "-DCBLAS" flag as it latter means that we need to 
> include cblas.
>
>
> Its a pity you can't use some of the octav-forge toolboxes, but getting 
> octave itself compiled is more important.
>
> Regards
> David



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