Re: Metis

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Not really, as Octave doesn't in fact link to Metis.. It links to
> Cholmod that then links to Metis. If the user built Cholmod to use
> metis, then our only choices are to link to metis or to not link to
> cholmod at all.

I think it's not true
The following is the a part of UFconfig.mk of suitesparse 3.0.0.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# METIS, optionally used by CHOLMOD
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# If you do not have METIS, or do not wish to use it in CHOLMOD, you must
# compile CHOLMOD with the -DNPARTITION flag.  You must also use the
# "METIS =" option, below.

# The path is relative to where it is used, in CHOLMOD/Lib, CHOLMOD/MATLAB, etc.
# You may wish to use an absolute path.  METIS is optional.  Compile
# CHOLMOD with -DNPARTITION if you do not wish to use METIS.

Building cholmod with -DNPARTITION option can realise the cholmod library 
without metis.
My cygwin and mingw binaries include cholmod without metis.
Perhaps some features will be lost without metis but the cholmod itself can be 
build without the
metis.

The suitesparse libraries with metis is now not allowed to be distributed by 
the licence problem.
For the users who would like to use the complete cholmod feature, only they can 
do is build octave by
themselves with metis.

So I think the metis selection is not recommended to be removed.

However I do not know how the octave uses suitesparse library.
My opinion may miss the point.

Tatsuro








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