Re: Metis

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 18, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> Dear all
>
> As before I ask in the help-octave thread
> I cannot build metis on mingw and jwe taught me that octave linked  
> with metis is not compatible the
> GPL.
> In the Debain, jwe told me that there are suitesparse libraries  
> which are not linked with metis.
>
> http://www.nabble.com/HDF5-and-metis-4.0-on-mingw- 
> tf4258320.html#a12120550
>
> However the suitesparse binaries are not always prepared and
> people who visit to the suitesparse web page perhaps need METIS to  
> build the cholmod library.
>
> (But I carefully read it again, it certainly was written as optional.)
>
> So I think it is recommended to prepare a document about this issue  
> for those who careless
> people like me.
>
> Regards

I believe the details for compiling SuiteSparse with and without  
METIS are in SuiteSparse/UFconfig/UFconfig.mk.

If you haven't looked at that file, you may find what you need there.

Ben