sparse matrix support on SuSE 10.0 (was RE: dmperm)

[Eike Friedrich]

> 
> Eike Friedrich wrote:
...
> >
> > I am guessing that I need UMFPACK and the other sparse matrix related
> > material in order to get this working? Can you tell me how to
> incorporate
> > this or how you got dmperm working?
> >
> 
> I would expect bison, flex, and gperf to be available as part of your
> distribution. All of the other missing libraries are part of UFsparse,
> which can be found at
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/UFsparse/v2.0.0/. They should be
> easy enough to compile, but others have complained about having troubles
> installing them in a place that octave's configure script will find
> them. This is getting to be a frequent enough problem that maybe we need
> a compilation guide for UFsparse on the octave web page. Anyone who
> succeeds please report what you did.
> 
> Also, the libraries are available precompiled for Debian and Fedora, but
> not SuSE. Does SuSE have the equivalent of Fedora's Extras repository?
> If so, it would save a lot of duplication of effort if some willing SuSE
> user could create some RPMs for these libraries and save others the
> pain. For anyone interested in this, I recommend using the Fedora SRPM
> as a starting point.
> 
> Quentin

I think I have succeeded in getting UFsparse libraries to a place where
octave's configure script will find them. Now when I try to build octave I
get compile errors as shown below. I am using SuSE 10.0, which uses
gcc-4.0.2, which apparently has much stricter ISO checking and is
increasingly annoying (SuSE has no compat-gcc32 packages). Do these errors
seem to be because of gcc 4.0.2, or perhaps an error in my configuration?
Are these errors to be expected/easily solved? Possibly as a result of these
errors it seems that the octave shared library does not get created. 'Make
check' fails trying to load octavelib.so.

I should not, perhaps, be meddling in these things I do not fully
understand, I have some old matlab code that I would very much like to use
in octave. In order to do this I need some of the sparse matrix funtions,
but I am not familiar with C in any form. Your patience is appreciated.


Eike


make[2]: Entering directory `/home/eike/octave/octave-2.9.7/liboctave'
g++ -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -g -O2 sparse-dmsolve.cc
-o pic/sparse-dmsolve.o
SparseQR.h:68: error: expected ';' before '*' token
SparseQR.h:70: error: expected ';' before '*' token
SparseQR.h:130: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'cs_dis' with no type
SparseQR.h:130: error: expected ';' before '*' token
SparseQR.h:132: error: expected `;' before 'cs_din'
SparseQR.h:132: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'cs_din' with no type
SparseQR.h:132: error: expected ';' before '*' token
SparseQR.h:134: error: expected `;' before '}' token
SparseQR.h: In member function 'bool SparseQR::SparseQR_rep::ok() const':
SparseQR.h:50: error: 'N' was not declared in this scope
SparseQR.h:50: error: 'S' was not declared in this scope
SparseCmplxQR.h: At global scope:
SparseCmplxQR.h:68: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'cs_cis' with no
type
SparseCmplxQR.h:68: error: expected ';' before '*' token
SparseCmplxQR.h:70: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'cs_cin' with no
type
SparseCmplxQR.h:70: error: expected ';' before '*' token
SparseCmplxQR.h:134: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'cs_cis' with no
type
SparseCmplxQR.h:134: error: expected ';' before '*' token
SparseCmplxQR.h:136: error: expected `;' before 'cs_cin'
SparseCmplxQR.h:136: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'cs_cin' with no
type
SparseCmplxQR.h:136: error: expected ';' before '*' token
SparseCmplxQR.h:138: error: expected `;' before '}' token
SparseCmplxQR.h: In member function 'bool
SparseComplexQR::SparseComplexQR_rep::ok() const':
SparseCmplxQR.h:50: error: 'N' was not declared in this scope
SparseCmplxQR.h:50: error: 'S' was not declared in this scope
sparse-dmsolve.cc: In function 'RT dmsolve(const ST&, const T&,
octave_idx_type&)':
sparse-dmsolve.cc:377: error: 'cs_di' was not declared in this scope
sparse-dmsolve.cc:377: error: expected `;' before 'csm'
sparse-dmsolve.cc:378: error: 'csm' was not declared in this scope
sparse-dmsolve.cc:389: error: 'cs_did' was not declared in this scope
sparse-dmsolve.cc:389: error: 'dm' was not declared in this scope
sparse-dmsolve.cc:389: error: there are no arguments to 'cs_di_dmperm' that
depend on a template parameter, so a declaration of 'cs_di_dmperm' must be
available
sparse-dmsolve.cc:389: error: (if you use '-fpermissive', G++ will accept
your code, but allowing the use of an undeclared name is deprecated)
sparse-dmsolve.cc:468: error: there are no arguments to 'cs_di_dfree' that
depend on a template parameter, so a declaration of 'cs_di_dfree' must be
available
make[2]: *** [pic/sparse-dmsolve.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory