From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue May 17 12:12:31 2005
Subject: Re: ./configure does not recognize umfpack library.
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
Cc: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dasergatskov at gmail dot com>,         David.Bateman@motorola.com, Help-Octave <help@octave.org>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 13:08:49 -0400

On  9-May-2005, Quentin Spencer wrote:

| While we're on this topic, I thought I'd mention that I did a little 
| research on GLPK because I intend to package it for Fedora Extras 
| (eventually). According to the mailing lists, it was claimed at one time 
| that GLPK was only a static library because the code was not reentrant. 
| I think I recall that that is supposedly no longer true of recent 
| versions.

As far as I know, there is no requirement that code be reentrat in
order to create a shared library.  If it were required, then I don't
think we would be able to create shared versions of the Octave
libraries.

jwe