Re: Suitesparse libs (AMD, ..) issues during configure (Mageia-6)

[Philip Nienhuis]

Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 09/01/2017 09:18 AM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to build dev octave on Mageia-6 (just released) and run
> > > into the
> > > following during configure:
> > >
> > > :
> > > configure:42494: checking suitesparse/amd.h usability
> > > configure:42494: gcc -c -g -O2 -pthread -fopenmp   conftest.c >&5
> > > configure:42494: $? = 0
> > > configure:42494: result: yes
> > > configure:42494: checking suitesparse/amd.h presence
> > > configure:42494: gcc -E   conftest.c
> > > configure:42494: $? = 0
> > > configure:42494: result: yes
> > > configure:42494: checking for suitesparse/amd.h
> > > configure:42494: result: yes
> > > configure:42505: checking for amd_postorder in -lamd
> > > configure:42536: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -pthread -fopenmp     conftest.c
> > > -lamd -lutil -lm   >&5
> > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../lib64/libamd.so:
> > > undefined reference to `SuiteSparse_config'
> > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../lib64/libamd.so:
> > > undefined reference to `SuiteSparse_free'
> > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../lib64/libamd.so:
> > > undefined reference to `SuiteSparse_malloc'
> > > :
> > >
> > > Octave builds fine AFAICS but to proceed further and cross-build for
> > > mxe-octave, the dist target needs COLAMD and I suppose AMD / CAMD /
> > > CCOLAMD
> > > to build the docs.
> > >
> > > How can I get this fixed?
> > >
> > > I saw the old bug #43063 but that is quite a while back. Until a few
> > > weeks
> > > ago I could build Octave w/o issues on Mageia-6 RC incl suitesparse.

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> > Even though I really think that your suitesparse libraries should be
> > linked to the config library if they need it, I checked in the following
> > changeset.  Does it help?
>
> Thanks, I'll check & report back later.

Yep, that helps, I see no more complaints about missing libraies after 
./configure.
Thank you very much.

philip