Re: Suitesparse libs (AMD, ..) issues during configure (Mageia-6)

[John W. Eaton]

On 09/01/2017 09:18 AM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build dev octave on Mageia-6 (just released) and run into the
> following during configure:
>
> :
> configure:42494: checking suitesparse/amd.h usability
> configure:42494: gcc -c -g -O2 -pthread -fopenmp   conftest.c >&5
> configure:42494: $? = 0
> configure:42494: result: yes
> configure:42494: checking suitesparse/amd.h presence
> configure:42494: gcc -E   conftest.c
> configure:42494: $? = 0
> configure:42494: result: yes
> configure:42494: checking for suitesparse/amd.h
> configure:42494: result: yes
> configure:42505: checking for amd_postorder in -lamd
> configure:42536: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -pthread -fopenmp     conftest.c
> -lamd -lutil -lm   >&5
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../lib64/libamd.so:
> undefined reference to `SuiteSparse_config'
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../lib64/libamd.so:
> undefined reference to `SuiteSparse_free'
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../lib64/libamd.so:
> undefined reference to `SuiteSparse_malloc'
> :
>
> Octave builds fine AFAICS but to proceed further and cross-build for
> mxe-octave, the dist target needs COLAMD and I suppose AMD / CAMD / CCOLAMD
> to build the docs.
>
> How can I get this fixed?
>
> I saw the old bug #43063 but that is quite a while back. Until a few weeks
> ago I could build Octave w/o issues on Mageia-6 RC incl suitesparse.

What does

  ldd /usr/lib64/libamd.so

show you?  Does it include libsuitesparseconfig.so in the list of 
libraries that are linked to libamd.so?  If not, then I think maybe this 
is a configuration/build/packaging error in your version of suitesparse.

Even though I really think that your suitesparse libraries should be 
linked to the config library if they need it, I checked in the following 
changeset.  Does it help?

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/6f56efc098bd

jwe