Re: CAMD libraries

[Carlo de Falco]

On 12/apr/07, at 10:16, David Bateman wrote:

> Riccardo Corradini wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am trying to install latest octave 2.9.10 but I have only one
> > missing library
> > How do I install in debian like distros?
> >
> >  CAMD libraries
> CAMD is a constrained version of the minimum degree AMD code, and is
> useful only when in cases where constrained permutations are used
> SuiteSparse (probably in CHOLMOD, and perhaps UMFPACK). It can give a
> boost in speed   particularly if used with the non open source METIS
> libraries. However, if you can't find CAMD in the build process, the
> debian SuiteSparse package was built without it, or with a version  
> prior
> to the release of CAMD. Therefore the underlying code doesn't use it,
> and you'll loose no functionality..
>
> Regards
> David

David, Riccardo,

I don't know if this is related,
but on MacOSX
configure will not detect CAMD unless I add
explicitely add something like:
LIBS="-lcamd "
to the configure command.

Carlo

P.S. As far as I understand, although it is not free  software,
METIS is open source.