Re: ./configure does not recognize umfpack library.

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-May-2005, Quentin Spencer wrote:

| While we're on this topic, I thought I'd mention that I did a little 
| research on GLPK because I intend to package it for Fedora Extras 
| (eventually). According to the mailing lists, it was claimed at one time 
| that GLPK was only a static library because the code was not reentrant. 
| I think I recall that that is supposedly no longer true of recent 
| versions.

As far as I know, there is no requirement that code be reentrat in
order to create a shared library.  If it were required, then I don't
think we would be able to create shared versions of the Octave
libraries.

jwe



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