Re: ./configure does not recognize umfpack library.

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

David Bateman wrote:

> Unfortunately, unless you ae building a static version of octave you'll 
> need to build a dynamic version of UMFPACK. Check the debian/rules file 
> in the debian umfpack for the exact procedure on how to do this. Perhaps 
> Quentin Spencer has a spec file for Fedora...

Perhaps I am missing something, but I do have shared octave and it is
compiled against static umfpack:

address@hidden ~]$ ldd /usr/local/bin/octave
        liboctinterp.so => /usr/local/lib/octave-2.9.2/liboctinterp.so 
(0x00571000)
        liboctave.so => /usr/local/lib/octave-2.9.2/liboctave.so (0x00d40000)
        libcruft.so => /usr/local/lib/octave-2.9.2/libcruft.so (0x0022a000)
        libfftw3.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libfftw3.so.3 (0x00111000)
        libreadline.so.4 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x05f9c000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x05e4d000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x001a9000)
        libhdf5.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libhdf5.so.0 (0x00432000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x001ad000)
        libg2c.so.0 => /usr/lib/libg2c.so.0 (0x001bd000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x001da000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x001fd000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x01bde000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0228c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00212000)
address@hidden ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libumfpack.*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1098548 Mar 15 15:41 /usr/local/lib/libumfpack.a
-rw-r-----  1 root root    2365 Mar 15 15:41 /usr/local/lib/libumfpack.def
...

octave:3> help sparse
sparse is the dynamically-linked function from the file
/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.9.2/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sparse.oct

 -- Loadable Function: SPARSE_VAL = sparse (...)
     SPARSE: create a sparse matrix

     sparse can be called in the following ways:

...

octave:4> s=speye (100000);
octave:5> spdet(s)
ans = 1


> D.

Dmitri.
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