Re: SuiteSparse problems

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 31, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Ed Meyer wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Robinson, Melvin D <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Tried to build Octave from sources with the latest version of SuiteSparse.  
> It seems that the symbol SuiteSparse_time has been deprecated.  Here is the 
> error message I receive
> 
> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>   "_SuiteSparse_time", referenced from:
>       _umfpack_tic in libumfpack.a(umfpack_gn_tictoc.o)
>       _umfpack_toc in libumfpack.a(umfpack_gn_tictoc.o)
> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [liboctave.la] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> butterfly:octave melrobin$ port list SuiteSparse
> SuiteSparse                    @4.0.0          math/SuiteSparse
> 
> Something similar happens on Fedora as well.  Backing down to SuiteSparse 
> 3.7.1 works.
> 
> 
> what version of umfpack do you have - my 5.4 calls umfpack_timer but not 
> SuiteSparse_time so
> maybe you just need a newer umfpack
> 

umfpack is part of the SuiteSparse meta-package. Correct ?

        http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/

SuiteSparse-4.0.2 has been released. I'll try a local build to see if the 
problem is still present.

Ben