Octave 3.0.0: configure doesn't find the Suitesparse Libraries

[Jan Ruebel]

Hello!

I am trying to configure octave3.0.0 with the latest SuiteSparse package (v. 
3.1, including UMFPACK, CHOLMOD etc). So far I've compiled SuitesSparse 
succesfully. I placed links to the resulting *.a and *.h files in /usr/lib/ 
and usr/include/  (I also tried /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include) and 
ran ./configure in the octave3.0.0 directory.
However it seems that configure doesn't find the suitesparse libraries:

configure: WARNING: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some lack of 
functionality for sparse matrices.
configure: WARNING: COLAMD not found. This will result in some lack of 
functionality for sparse matrices.
configure: WARNING: CCOLAMD not found. This will result in some lack of 
functionality for sparse matrices.
configure: WARNING: CHOLMOD not found. This will result in some lack of 
functionality for sparse matrices.
configure: WARNING: CXSparse not found. This will result in some lack of 
functionality for sparse matrices.

A subsequent "Make" works and octave compiles succesfully and works.
But I cannot use the UMFPACK features...

Is there a default path where ./configure checks for these libraries and 
headers?
How can I tell configure where to look?

I'm using gcc 3.3.4 on a SuSE 9.2 system.

Best regards 
Jan