Re: HDF5 and metis 4.0 on mingw

[Michael Goffioul]

On 8/13/07, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have constructed a libcholmod.a revising the Makefile.
> First I did not aware that  cholmod_analyze.c and
> cholmod_nesdis.c depend on the Metis.
> So the following build error occured.
>
> /usr/local/octave-2.9.13/lib/libcholmod.a(cholmod_analyze.o):cholmod_analyze.c:(.text+0x1379):
> undefined reference to `_cholmod_metis'
> /usr/local/octave-2.9.13/lib/libcholmod.a(cholmod_nesdis.o):cholmod_nesdis.c:(.text+0x3a86):
> undefined reference to `_cholmod_metis_bisector'
> /usr/local/octave-2.9.13/lib/libcholmod.a(cholmod_nesdis.o):cholmod_nesdis.c:(.text+0x3d19):
> undefined reference to `_cholmod_metis_bisector'
>
> I have construct next libcholmod.a without
> cholmod_analyze.o and cholmod_nesdis.o.
>
> In this case, CSparse.cc (CSparse.o) and dSparse.cc
> (dSparse.o) caused the link error.
>
> Can I really construct the chomod fucntions without metis
> ?

I think you should double check your Makefile's (and UFconfig.mk)
because I do compile cholmod without Metis (with MSVC). You can
have a look at octave-forge /admin/Windows/msvc/libs/SuiteSparse.*
files to see the configuration I'm using for MSVC (the patch is only
about Makefile's).

Michael.