Re: SuiteSparse problems

[Martin Helm]

Am 06.08.2012 23:55, schrieb Ben Abbott:
> On Aug 5, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> > On Aug 5, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >
> > > On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:55 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:25 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Ed Meyer wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Robinson, Melvin D <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Tried to build Octave from sources with the latest version of SuiteSparse.  It 
> > > > > > seems that the symbol SuiteSparse_time has been deprecated.  Here is the error 
> > > > > > message I receive
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 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)
> > > > > > ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
> > > > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > > > > make[3]: *** [liboctave.la] Error 1
> > > > > > make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> > > > > > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > > > > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > > > > > butterfly:octave melrobin$ port list SuiteSparse
> > > > > > SuiteSparse                    @4.0.0          math/SuiteSparse
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Something similar happens on Fedora as well.  Backing down to SuiteSparse 3.7.1 
> > > > > > works.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > what version of umfpack do you have - my 5.4 calls umfpack_timer but not 
> > > > > > SuiteSparse_time so
> > > > > > maybe you just need a newer umfpack
> > > > > umfpack is part of the SuiteSparse meta-package. Correct ?
> > > > >
> > > > >         http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/
> > > > >
> > > > > SuiteSparse-4.0.2 has been released. I'll try a local build to see if the 
> > > > > problem is still present.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ben
> > > > Building Octave with SuiteSparse-4.0.2 I still encounter the errors below 
> > > > (during the link phase for liboctave)
> > > >
> > > > 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)
> > > >
> > > > A google (link below) indicates this problem can be fixed.
> > > >
> > > >         http://trac.macports.org/ticket/35176
> > > >
> > > > When linking to libumfpack.a we must also link to libSuiteSparse.dylib.  I 
> > > > manually edited the Makefile for liboctave and added -lSuiteSparse to the 
> > > > UMFPACK_LIBS variable.
> > > >
> > > >         UMFPACK_LIBS = -lumfpack -lSuiteSparse
> > > >
> > > > liboctave now builds for me.  I'll continue with my Octave build and report 
> > > > back later.
> > > My build completed, and have no new test failures (make check).
> > >
> > > I haven't verified, but setting UMFPACK_LIBS and then running configure or 
> > > passing UMFPACK_LIBS to configure should resolve this.
> > >
> > >         export UMFPACK_LIBS="-lumfpack -lSuiteSparse"
> > >         ./configure ...
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > >         ./configure UMFPACK_LIBS="-lumfpack -lSuiteSparse" ...
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I've opened a bug report.
> >
> >         https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37031
> >
> > Ben
> A simple work around it to add the configure script option below
>
>         --with-umfpack="-lumfpack -lSuiteSparse"
>
> Ben
Anyone has an idea how to fix that on Linux? I ran today into the same 
problem on openSUSE 12.2 RC2, of course I can downgrade suitesparse but 
that's not really clever since the default is 4.0.
If not I will investigate over the weekend.