Re: testing install of suitesparse

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 25, 2007, at 2:16 AM, Thomas Weber wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 24.10.2007, 21:11 -0400 schrieb Ben Abbott:
> > I'll take a look at ismember.m once I've finished my present attempt
> > at creating Fink packages for SuiteSparse and Metis.
> >
> > If anyone else if motivated toward this task, please reply. I'll not
> > be able to put much attention toward this for at least 2 weeks.
>
> Isn't Fink based on the normal Debian system? Both Suitesparse and  
> Metis
> are available from Debian (Metis is in non-free, suitesparse without
> metis in main, suitesparse with metis in contrib).
>
>         Thomas

Yes Fink is based upon the Debian system. However, there are  
differences. I'm not familiar with Debian and thus have had trouble  
translating their package over to FInk.

I've poked around in the Debian SVN: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg- 
scicomp/?rev=0&sc=0

Unfortunately, I've not found an equivalent to Fink's .info files  
(and don't know that anything equivalent actually exists in Debian).

However, the Debian strategy for creating two packages for  
suitesparse (with and withou metis) is likely the best approach for  
Fink as well.

Ben