Re: How to make SuiteSparse to be discoverable by Octave configure script?

[David Bateman]

Sergey Maslennikov wrote:
> I'm trying to configure Octave on a machine with Linux installed from
> Slackware 11 distributive but it is appeared to be quite hard to
> install SuiteSparse in a recognizable for Octave configure script manner.
>
> Could anybody help me to configure and install SuiteSparse properly to
> make it consistent with Octave?
>
> My current configurations.
> --------------------------
>
> 1) SuiteSparse
>
> A few options was added in SuiteSparse/UFconfig/UFconfig.mk: "BLAS =
> .... -lpthread" "LAPACK = ... -lcblas -latlas"
> As a result of SuiteSparse compilation the files with '.a' extension
> have appeared in its directories (for instance,
> SuiteSparse/UMFPACK/Lib/libumfpack.a). I have put all .a ended files
> to /usr/lib and have put all .h files to /usr/include using Slackware
> makepkg utility.
That should have worked... Perhaps the problem is to do with the cblas
library, however to check this you need to read the config.log to see
exactly why the files weren't found..

D.

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