Re: Problem building from 13027:b9a89ca0fb75

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> 
> --- On Tue, 2011/8/30, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I tried to build with tip ...
>> 
>> $ hg tip
>> changeset:   13027:b9a89ca0fb75
>> tag:         tip
>> user:        John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
>> date:        Mon Aug 29 13:07:22 2011 -0400
>> summary:     prevent optimization functions from setting ans in workspace at 
>> startup
>> 
>> ... and encountered the error below when linking liboctave.
>> 
>> libtool: link: /opt/local/bin/g++-mp-4.4 -dynamiclib  -o 
>> .libs/liboctave.0.dylib [... snip ...]
>> ld: warning: directory not found for option 
>> '-L/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_gcc44/gcc44/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin11/libstdc++-v3/src'
>> ld: warning: directory not found for option 
>> '-L/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_gcc44/gcc44/work/build/x86_64-apple-darwin11/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs'
>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>>   "_METIS_NodeComputeSeparator", referenced from:
>>       _cholmod_metis_bisector in libcholmod.a(cholmod_metis.o)
>>   "_METIS_NodeND", referenced from:
>>       _cholmod_metis in libcholmod.a(cholmod_metis.o)
>> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
>> 
>> After reverting to 13021 (hg revert --rev 13021 --all), I am able to build 
>> again.
>> 
>> The "METIS" stuff is due to MacPort's SuiteSparse package I'm linking to.
>> 
>> Is anyone else seeing a problem like this?
>> 
>> In the meantime, I'll try to bisect to isolate the changeset that introduced 
>> the problem for me.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Hello
> 
> This is not also answer.
> 
> As far as I remember, the license of the METIS is not compatible to that of 
> octave so that octave binary with SuiteSparse linked with the METIS cannot be 
> distributed. 
> 
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Metis-td1647536.html
> 
> So we have to build the SuiteSparse (chlmod) built with -DNPARTITION flag for 
> the binary distribution.
> (For self build, the METIS can be used.)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro

I'm using the MacPorts package management. Since it doesn't distribute binaries 
(everything is compiled from source) there is no problem with distribution.

However, I appreciate the advice for including the -DNPARTITION flag. That will 
allow me to create a version of SuiteSparse that does not include metis.

Thanks
Ben