[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: [prudhomm@debian.org: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] suitesparse and octave]

[Christophe Prud'homme]

Rafael,

[ vendredi 5 janvier 2007 08:43 ]
| * Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm at debian.org> [2007-01-04 20:38]:
| > [ jeudi 4 janvier 2007 20:02 ]
| >
| > | | There will probably be a problem with the Debian package, though,
| > | | since the header files are installed in /usr/include/suitesparse
| > | | instead of /usr/include/sparsesuite.  I am a little bit confused by
| > | | that, because it is not clear to me whether the choice of the
| > | | directory name is upstream authors' choice or the Debian packager's
| > | | choice.  Christophe: could you please clarify this issue?
| >
| > I was too quick: the library is called suitesparse and I
| > wrote /usr/include/suitesparse in my first email. So may be it is David
| > who made the typo, David? or was it intentional to
| > write /usr/include/sparsesuite ?
|
| I am still confused and my original questions are not answered: [to
| Christophe:] is the directory name /usr/include/suitesparse an upstream
| choice or is this specific to the Debian package?  
/usr/include/suitesparse is specific to Debian _but_ it follows the scheme 
developed in the past for umfpack (/usr/include/umfpack) and 
ufsparse(/usr/include/ufsparse). This scheme has been adopted also (at least 
for ufsparse) by Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee.org> who takes care of the 
redhat/fedora package if I am not mistaken.

upstream offers no install mechanism.


Best regards
C.
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