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

[Stefan Vigerske]

Hi,

> 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.

Yes, newer versions than 4.8.3 did not seem to work stable with Ipopt.

Stefan

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Stefan Vigerske
Humboldt University Berlin, Numerical Mathematics
http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~stefan