HDF5 and metis 4.0 on mingw

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Aug-2007, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

| I have been trying to build mingw octave 2.9.13 binary.  
| I failed to build HDF5  due to the netdb.h and 'netinet'. 
| I tried to use prebuild library for MSVC but the trial was
| failed.
| 
| While for metis, such an error occurred in the make. 
| make[1]: Entering directory
| `/home/octaves/metis-4.0/Programs'
| gcc -L/GnuWin32/lib -L/GnuWin32/bin
| -L/usr/local/octave-2.9.13/lib -L. -L..  -o
| ../pmetis pmetis.o io.o  -lmetis -lm
| ../libmetis.a(util.o):util.c:(.text+0x8a3): undefined
| reference to `srand48'
| ../libmetis.a(util.o):util.c:(.text+0x8ba): undefined
| reference to `srand48'
| ../libmetis.a(graph.o):graph.c:(.text+0x9b1): undefined
| reference to `drand48'
| ../libmetis.a(minitpart2.o):minitpart2.c:(.text+0xac):
| undefined reference to `drand48'
| 
| The 'libmetis.a' itself was built.  However, in the octave
| building the results was not successful because of link
| error.
| 
| Please give me good advice.

I don't know about build problems, but you can't distribute a binary
linked with metis because the license terms of metis are not
compatible with the GPL.  So if you are planning to distribute this
binary, you must find a way to build it without metis.  I think it
should be possible to configure the sparse libraries so that they do
not depend on metis.

jwe