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

[David Bateman]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I am forwarding below a message from Christophe Prud'homme sent to the
> pkg-scicomp-devel devel mailing list regarding the renaming of the
> libufsparse package in Debian into libsuitesparse, as done by the upstream
> authors.
>
> In order to use this new package for building the octave2.9 package, we need
> to patch the Octave sources.  Please, tell me if we need to change anything
> else than liboctave/oct-sparse.h.
>
> Rafael
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm at debian.org> -----
>
> From: Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm at debian.org>
> Subject: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] suitesparse and octave
> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:39:53 +0100
> To: pkg-scicomp-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Organization: Debian GNU/Linux
> Message-Id: <200612221339.54162.prudhomm at debian.org>
>
> Rafael,
>
> I just put suitesparse on pkg-scicomp and it is ready for consumption 
> the only visible change is that the headers are now in 
> /usr/include/suitesparse 
>
> is that a problem ?
>
> the dynamic libs still have the same version, I don't think the interfaces has 
> changed at all, but I will check that.
>
> cu
> C.
>   
I've already added to the cvs of octave an autoconf test for the
sparsesuite headers in the location /usr/include/sparsesuite and so this
is fine at least from the 2.9.10 release when it is released...

D.


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