[Pkg-scicomp-devel] suitesparse -- create links to /usr/include?

[Ondrej Certik]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Christophe Prud'homme
<prudhomm at debian.org> wrote:
> Ondrej,
>
> we had a discussion with the author of suitesparse, the author of the
> suitesparse interface in Octave and the person in charge of the fedora
> octave/suitesparse package and we agreed in using /usr/include/suitesparse
> as the place of the headers.
> With the compiler if you use -I/usr/include/suitesparse in the compiler
> command line then you don't have to change your code, just add
> /usr/include/suitesparse as a possible location for the headers.
> your solution may not work if you have a umfpack header including other
> umfpack headers.

I see, then it's ok.

>
> what is the problem with that ? I do that for my codes, it works also great
> with petsc and trilinos.

Right, it's not a problem, I'll try to fix it. Thanks for the
explanation. If all the distributions are going to use it, then all is
fine.

Ondrej