Re: HDF5 and metis 4.0 on mingw

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> Explanation of CHOLMOD **********************
> CHOLMOD       sparse Cholesky factorization.  
> Requires AMD, COLAMD, CCOLAMD,
> the BLAS, and LAPACK.  Optionally uses METIS.  
> **********************************************
Dear Prof. J. W. Eaton

Atfer the mail, I have checked the chelmod Makefile and
found that the dependence of the chelmod on the metis are
really optional so that I removed it and build new
library.  I will build the new binary.

Thank you  
Sincerely,
T. Matsuoka


--- Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

> > I don't know about build problems, but you can't
> > distribute a binary
> > linked with metis because the license terms of
> metis
> > are not
> > compatible with the GPL.  So if you are planning
> to
> > distribute this
> > binary, you must find a way to build it without
> > metis.  I think it
> > should be possible to configure the sparse
> libraries
> > so that they do
> > not depend on metis.
> > 
> > jwe
> 
> Thank you your advice.  I have been not awared of
> it. 
> My cygwin octave 2.9.13 binary was linked with
> metis.
> So I stopped the distribution temporalily.
> 
> Explanation of CHOLMOD **********************
> CHOLMOD       sparse Cholesky factorization.  
> Requires AMD, COLAMD, CCOLAMD,
> the BLAS, and LAPACK.  Optionally uses METIS.  
> **********************************************
> 
> Can I build Cholmod without metis ?
> 
> Octave configure requests to link with metis for
> Cholmod
> building.
> So I thought that linking with metis had no problem.
> 
> It will be grateful for me if the information of
> redistribution limitaion of linking with metis will
> be
> documented in the octave source distribution.
> 
> T. Matsuoka
> 
> 
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