From help-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 10 03:47:13 2006
Subject: Re: Prerequisites to 2.9.x
From: Shai Ayal <shaia at biocontrol dot co dot il>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:51:24 +0200

thanks.

I tried to do it myself before resorting to your SRPM's. Also, I do not 
need/want METIS. does the UFSPARSE SRPM compile w/o METIS?

I downloaded and installed GLPK from source w/o any problems

I also got UFSPARSE. from

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/beta/Oct10_2005/UFsparse/

This is a bit more complex: I do not want anything wtih a shady (==non GPL 
compatible) license, so I gave up on sparse cholesky factorization.

I had to modify the top level Makefile to remove directories which do not 
exist (BF and KLU) and also to modify UFconfig/UFconfig.mk to change the 
BLAS flags (which I took from octave_config_info for my running 2.1.72).

doing a make -k did a lot of things with some errors -- of course I can't 
compile cholmod.

Now, looking for libraries I find:
./AMD/Lib/libamd.a
./CCOLAMD/libccolamd.a
./COLAMD/libcolamd.a
./LDL/libldl.a
./UFconfig/xerbla/libcerbla.a
./UMFPACK/Lib/libumfpack.a

so, how do I install the thing (I presume I also need the h files) ?

Shai

David Bateman wrote:
> Shai Ayal wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to get into the 2.9.x build and testing cycle, but I am 
>> unsure
>> what additional packages I need for a fully functional compile (e.g.
>> including sparse etc...). Can someone point me to a list of the required
>> and optional packages including where to get these packages and what 
>> versions?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Shai
>>
> In addition to the 2.1.x dependencies you need GLPK and UFSPARSE. You 
> might also like to install METIS prior to UFSPARSE to get a faster 
> sparse cholesky factorization, though there are licensing issues with 
> that... I can send source RPMs of UFSPARSE and METIS, though as they are 
> lareg I prefer to do that offline. Tell me if you want them.
> 
> Regards
> David
> 



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