[Cbc] 2.5.0-3 Source Availability

[Matthew Gidden]

Hi Miles,

Nice to hear from you again, and thanks for the quick reply!

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Miles Lubin <miles.lubin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
>
> I'm the (new) maintainer of the debian package for Cbc. You can access the
> version of cbc used in that package at
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/coinor-cbc/coinor-cbc_2.5.0.orig.tar.gz.
>
>
Ah, yes, I tried this as well, after untaring and configuring, I get the
following compile error:

Cbc_C_Interface.cpp:8:26: fatal error: CoinPragma.hpp: No such file or
> directory
> compilation terminated.
> make[2]: *** [Cbc_C_Interface.lo] Error 1
>


> Note that the COIN-OR packages have recently been updated, and cbc is now
> at version 2.8.7. This will be included in the 14.04 release of ubuntu, so
> I wouldn't suggest building your infrastructure around 2.5.0, which is
> pretty outdated.
>
>
> Miles
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Matthew Gidden <gidden at wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Our project <https://github.com/cyclus/cyclus> has Cbc as a dependency,
>> and we would like to support users that can build many packages from source
>> and those that prefer to use package managers. Synaptic currently uses
>> version 2.5.0-3 of Cbc, to which there is no corresponding, available
>> source code (that I can find).
>>
>> We must use a version of 2.5.x-y, because the OsiSolverInterface API
>> changes in 2.6. Furthermore, trying to compile either available version of
>> 2.5.x-y (i.e., https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Cbc/releases/2.5.0 and
>> https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Cbc/stable/2.5) results in the
>> following compiler error:
>>
>> In file included from CbcEventHandler.cpp:9:0:
>>> CbcEventHandler.hpp:145:39: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope
>>> make[2]: *** [CbcEventHandler.lo] Error 1
>>>
>>
>> This was a known bug at the time of release (bug report<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625065>,
>> fix <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coinor-cbc/2.5.0-2.1>).
>>
>> Accordingly, I'm asking for assistance via either:
>>
>>    - a suggested work around
>>    - publishing the (unstable) 2.5.0-3 branch
>>
>> Thanks for your assistance!
>>
>> --
>> Matthew Gidden
>> Ph.D. Candidate, Nuclear Engineering
>> The University of Wisconsin -- Madison
>> Ph. 225.892.3192
>>
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>


-- 
Matthew Gidden
Ph.D. Candidate, Nuclear Engineering
The University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Ph. 225.892.3192
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