[Ipopt] Linking IPOPT with .deb-packaged MUMPS on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic?

[Andrey Romanenko]

Hello,

On Wednesday 16 December 2009 14:04:23 Stefan Vigerske wrote:
> > I'm currently working on the packaging of ASCEND for use on Ubuntu, and
> > as part of that, I've created a Debian package for IPOPT. Recently,
> > MUMPS has been added to the Ubuntu package repositories (version 4.8.4)
> > so I'd like to make use of that system package, rather than having a
> > separate copy compiled especially for Ipopt.
> >
> > However, when I use
> >  ./configure --with-mumps-dir=/usr
> It should be --with-mumps-lib and --with-mumps-incdir.
> Stefan

Just a word of caution: My current Ubuntu (karmic) has MUMPS version 4.8.4,
However, IPOPT pulls in version 4.8.3. I believe there have been issues in the 
past with the use of MUMPS newer than expected by IPOPT.

Best Regards,
Andrey Romanenko