SuiteSparse with autotools

This repository is a suite of scripts to re-package and build the SuiteSparse library. You may be more interested in the final tar balls. Download the latest tar balls at:

http://matzeri.altervista.org/works/suitesparse/ (previously http://dev.gentoo.org/~bicatali/distfiles/ )

The repacking replaces the original well crafted but not portable Makefile with more standard autotools packaging and some other minor changes. This was originally done mostly to satisfy Linux distributions QA, but also adds usability and robustness to the original packaging. Gentoo Linux and Cygwin re-distribute all source code with this packaging.

What is done:

• add configure.ac, Makefile.am, m4 macros, pkg-config files for all SuiteSparse libraries
• a few tricks to avoid conflicting files during tests

What you get:

The usual configure/make/make install goodies:

• no need to edit makefile's, options are passed with the configure script
• build shared libraries simply with "./configure --enable-shared", build static libraries without PIC
• run unit tests for each library with "make check"
• cross-compiling, parallel building with "make -j N"
• easy to package for Linux distributors

Users can compile and link suitesparse libraries with a simple call to pkg-config, i.e.:

pkg-config --cflags cholmod   
pkg-config --libs cholmod

All C source code is unmodified.

To build the versioned tar balls, see INSTALL.md. Fetch the resulting tar balls from the Downloads link below.

Resources

SuiteSparse web site: http://www.suitesparse.com/ http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html

Download: http://matzeri.altervista.org/works/suitesparse/ (previously http://dev.gentoo.org/~bicatali/distfiles/ )

Git repository / bug reports / pull requests: https://github.com/sfabbro/suitesparse or fork https://github.com/matzeri/suitesparse