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

[Damien Hocking]

MUMPS is now at 4.9.2, and the 4.9 series is supposed to be better on 
symmetric optimisation matrices.  I've been using it in IPOPT 3.7.x for 
a couple of months now on kinetic parameter regressions.

Damien

John Pye wrote:
> Stefan Vigerske wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>>>       
>>>>         
>
> Correction: it should be (AFAICT):
>
> ./configure --with-mumps-lib=/usr/lib/libdmumps.a 
> --with-mumps-incdir=/usr/include
>
>
>   
>>> 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.
>>   
>>     
>
> Any ideas on what the problem is here? Has there been any discussion 
> between IPOPT and MUMPS developers on the issue?
>
> Is there an unstable version of IPOPT that works with new MUMPS?
>
> Cheers
> JP
>
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