error trying to build octave 3.4 with umfpack

[John Young]

Hello,

   I am trying to build octave with umfpack.  I downloaded the SuiteSparse
source code, built the various components, and tried to configure octave
(following some of the advice I read on the net) with:

sn{jyoung}% ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/scr1/software/SuiteSparse/UMFPACK/Include/"
LDFLAGS="-L/scr1/software/SuiteSparse/UMFPACK/Lib" 
--libdir="/scr1/software/SuiteSparse/COLAMD/Lib"
--libdir="/scr1/software/SuiteSparse/CCOLAMD/Lib" 
--libdir="/scr1/software/SuiteSparse/CHOLMOD/Lib"

After a looong make, I get:
... -lgfortran -lstdc++ -lm -lpthread -lc -lgcc_s 
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.5/crtendS.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.5/../../../../lib64/crtn.o  -pthread 
-Wl,-rpath
-Wl,/scr1/software/SuiteSparse/CHOLMOD/Lib/octave-3.4.0   -pthread -Wl,-soname
-Wl,liboctave-3.4.0.so -o .libs/liboctave-3.4.0.so
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
/usr/local/lib/libcholmod.a(cholmod_common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against 
`malloc' can not be
used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libcholmod.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

Any suggestions?

JY