Re: Octave and the new Mountain Lion Operating System

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 5, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 
> On Aug 5, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 4, 2012, at 11:13 PM, pete karousos wrote:
>> 
>>> Actually,
>>> 
>>> Looking a little closer I think the definition of SuiteSparse_tic and 
>>> SuiteSparse_toc were wrapped inside #ifdef SUITESPARSE_TIMER_ENABLED and 
>>> SUITESPARSE_TIMER_ENABLED is defined in SuiteSparse_config.h but it is only 
>>> defined if NTIMER is not defined. That would explain the undefined symbols. 
>>> When building for OS X though NTIMER is defined. I believe the real fix is 
>>> to not define NTIMER if the operating system is OS X and to provide the 
>>> definition of SuiteSparse_time the way I did if the operating system is OS 
>>> X.
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Aug 4, 2012, at 4:04 PM, pete karousos wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am running SuiteSparse 4.0.2. It was the SuiteSparse code I had to 
>>>> change not the Octave code. Once I got SuiteSpace to build everything was 
>>>> fine. I built everything against octave-3.6.2.
>>> 
>>> I tried SuiteSparse 4.0.0 (from MacPorts) and am seeing the error below.  
>>> What change did you make to SuiteSparse?
>>> 
>>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>>> "_SuiteSparse_time", referenced from:
>>>     _umfpack_tic in libumfpack.a(umfpack_gn_tictoc.o)
>>>     _umfpack_toc in libumfpack.a(umfpack_gn_tictoc.o)
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> I've been successful in resoling the problem by including -lSuiteSparse in 
>> the UMFPACK_LIBS variable.  Either ...
>> 
>>      ./configure UMFPACK_LIBS="-lumfpack -lSuiteSparse"
>> 
>> ... or ...
>> 
>>      export UMFPACK_LIBS="-lumfpack -lSuiteSparse"
>>      ./configure ...
>> 
>> ... should work.  What I've done so far was to edit liboctave/Makefile and 
>> add "-lSuiteSparse" to the UMFPACK_LIBS variable definition.  After that 
>> octave built without incident and "make check" returned no new failures.  
>> I've started a fresh build starting to configure to check that everything 
>> works as expected.  If it does, I'll file a bug report (configure should 
>> check if -lSuiteSparse needs to be added to UMFPACK_LIBS). 
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Setting the UMFPACK_LIBS variable did not work.  The configure script will 
> need to be fixed.  As a work around the liboctave Makefile may be manually 
> modified.
> 
> Ben

I opened a bug report

        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37031

Ben