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Re: linking COLAMD, CCOLAMD, ZLIB


From: Dmitri A. Sergatskov
Subject: Re: linking COLAMD, CCOLAMD, ZLIB
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:24:36 -0700

On 2/22/06, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 22-Feb-2006, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>
> | On 2/22/06, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> | > Andrew Funk wrote:
> |
> | > > Make
> | > > is not finding pcre.h (see output below).  I tried the trick of
> | > > specifying
> | > > the location of pcre.h to configure, and that did change the output of
> | ...
> | >
> | > Note sure why you can't find pcre correctly for the build of
> | > octave-forge. Have you tried to run
> | >
> |
> | I suspect that pcre.h is in /usr/include/pcre/pcre.h (I think Fedora Core 3 
> and
> | Redhat Enterprise 4 have it this way). I remember a discussion about it a 
> year
> | or so ago. I do not remember the conclusion, but my personal solution was to
> | make a symlink
> | /usr/include/pcre.h -> /usr/include/pcre/pcre.h
>
> Probably it would be better to fix Octave's configure script to search
> for either pcre.h or pcre/pcre.h.
>

The relocation of pcre into its private subdirectory broke quite a few
programs,
there were some public outcry, bug reports etc., and as a result
RedHat moved it back into /usr/include in FC4.
So I am not sure it worth to spent much effort solving this problem.

> jwe
>

Dmitri.
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