Dorsal problems with Fedora 11 and 13

[Yaakoub El Khamra]

Greetings
I am running into a few issues with dorsal on fedora 11 and 13. umfpack is not installed properly, it builds but does not install. Also, libscotch needed an extra CXXFLAG: -fPIC

After a manual install of umfpack and editing the Makefile.inc for libscotch (cleaning and rebuilding) things worked out fine.

[Harish Narayanan (hnarayanan)]

1. Do you know in what way umfpack is broken? I try to just use the system packages when available (suitesparse-devel in this case) and maybe we should report the problem to the package manager.

2. Are you sure? None of the Makefile.inc files in the scotch source folder seem to mention CXXFLAGS.

[Andy R Terrel (andy-terrel)]

Harish,

The problem was that scotch wasn't using the fPIC flag. I had Yakkoub
add it via CXXFLAGS and then it was fine. I don't usually build
scotch so I'm not sure if it is normally there or if the distribution
on Fedora is broken, but it was definitely a problem.

-- Andy

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Harish Narayanan
<email address hidden> wrote:
> 1. Do you know in what way umfpack is broken? I try to just use the
> system packages when available (suitesparse-devel in this case) and
> maybe we should report the problem to the package manager.
>
> 2. Are you sure? None of the Makefile.inc files in the scotch source
> folder seem to mention CXXFLAGS.
>
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> Dorsal problems with Fedora 11 and 13
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603431
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> Bug description:
> Greetings
> I am running into a few issues with dorsal on fedora 11 and 13. umfpack is not installed properly, it builds but does not install. Also, libscotch needed an extra CXXFLAG: -fPIC
>
> After a manual install of umfpack and editing the Makefile.inc for libscotch (cleaning and rebuilding) things worked out fine.
>
>
>

[Harish Narayanan (hnarayanan)]

This should be resolved in the latest release.