Re: Help compiling CVS 2.9.3

[Quentin Spencer]

Andy Adler wrote:

> I'm trying to get the CVS to compile with all the sparse matrix
> features on a Xandros (debian) box. I'm having trouble with
> cholmod and metis.
>
> Here is my story, and where I got stuck.
>
> First, I needed to patch ./configure.in
>    address@hidden:~/octave$ cvs diff ./configure.in
>    Index: configure.in
>    ===================================================================
>    RCS file: /cvs/octave/configure.in,v
>    retrieving revision 1.491
>    diff -r1.491 configure.in
>    839c839
>    <           AMD_LIBS $COLAMD_LIBS $CCOLAMD_LIBS $BLAS_LIBS $FLIBS -lmetis)],
>    ---
>    >           $AMD_LIBS $COLAMD_LIBS $CCOLAMD_LIBS $BLAS_LIBS $FLIBS -lmetis)],
>
> Next, I did the following (from my .bash_history)
>    # Get normal libs
>    apt-get install libreadline5-dev
>    apt-get install gperf flex bison dejagnu
>
>    # Get ufsparse - not available for debian
>    wget 
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386/ufsparse-0.9-3.fc5.i386.rpm
>    alien -i ufsparse-0.9-3.fc5.i386.rpm
>    wget 
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386/ufsparse-devel-0.9-3.fc5.i386.rpm
>    alien -i ufsparse-devel-0.9-3.fc5.i386.rpm
>
>    # Get metis
>    cd ~
>    wget http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/metis/files/metis-4.0.tar.gz
>    tar xfz metis-4.0.tar.gz
>    cd metis-4.0
>    vi Lib/rename.h  # NEED TO EDIT __log2 to __int_log2 TO AVOID CONFLICT
>    make
>    cp libmetis.a /usr/local/lib/
>    cp */*.h /usr/local/include/metis/
>    chmod a+r /usr/local/include/metis/* /usr/local/lib/libmetis.a
>    vi /usr/local/include/metis/metis.h  # NEED TO EDIT "metis/" INTO 4 LAST 
> INCLUDES
>
> My trouble now is the following (from config.log):
>
>    configure:14265: checking for cholmod_start in -lcholmod
>    configure:14303: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lcholmod -lamd -lcolamd 
> -lccolamd -lblas  -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5 
> -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/../../.. -lz -lfrtbegin -lg2c-lm -lgcc_s -lmetis 
> -lz -lm  >&5
>    
> /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS)(.gnu.linkonce.t.__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx+0x0):
>  In function `__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx':
>    : multiple definition of `__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx'
>    
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/../../../libcholmod.a(cholmod_common.o)(.gnu.linkonce.t.__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx+0x0):
>  first defined here
>
> Any ideas?
>  

I haven't tried to compile everything with ufsparse yet, but I thought I 
should mention that the ufsparse package I put in Fedora Extras is built 
without support for metis because of its non-GPL compatible licensing. I 
would suggest trying to compile without metis and see what happens. I 
was waiting on a 2.9.4 release before I tried compiling all of this, but 
if I have time I may try doing it sooner, unless John can elighten us on 
how soon a new release might be.

-Quentin



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