Re: How to make SuiteSparse to be recognizable?

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 24-Nov-2006, Sergey Maslennikov wrote:
>
> | Yes. I have found that there is a requirement to utilize libcholmod with 
> |      libcamd and probably with libmetis. See, for instance, 
> | http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/cholmod/. It is written there 
> | that cholmod optionally requires camd, but it seems that -lcholmod must 
> | be put with -lmetis as well.
>
> Is METIS really required?  If so, I think that causes a licensing
> problem.
>
> jwe
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Metis is not required, though it is enabled by default in the standard
build of sparsesuite. Fedora, and debian disable the use of Metis in
cholmod for a fully GPL compliant version of the code..

D.


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