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

[John Pye]

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
>   

I meant to add: with the above command, I still get an error:

checking if user provides library for mumps... yes
checking whether symbol dmumps_c is available with MUMPS... no
configure: error: Cannot find symbol(s) dmumps_c with MUMPS
configure: error: /bin/bash './configure' failed for Ipopt

Cheers
JP


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Dr John Pye
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Australian National University
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