Re: Problem compiling Octave on Mac OS X

[Rob Mahurin]

On May 31, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On May 31, 2009, at 4:59 PM, ws wrote:
> > I just ALMOST compiled octave on my mac, linking to the Mac Port
> > libraries.
> > [...]
> > I then ran "make" and it churned away until it exited with the
> > following error:
> >
> > ld: Undefined symbols:
> > _METIS_NodeComputeSeparator
> > _METIS_NodeND
> > /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
> > make[2]: *** [liboctave.dylib] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> It appears that MacPorts expects METIS to be included with the install
> of SuiteSparse.
>
> Documentation for SuiteSparese can be found below
>
>         http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/
>
> I don't believe Octave uses the METIS code. In addition the METIS
> package has a license that is incompatible with Octave's. I recommend
> you build your suitesparse to run without METIS.


If you're not planning to redistribute your binary the license  
incompatibility isn't so terrible.  In that case you could "port  
install metis".

Rob

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