I've added a fix to official libraries and packaged it in my ppa. To install libraries with a fix of this bug, do the following:
1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bzindovic/suitesparse-bugfix-1319687 2. sudo apt-get update 3. sudo apt-get upgrade I hope it will be resolved in the official package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to suitesparse in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1319687 Title: SuiteSparse fails to link in shared library due to missing -fPIC in libsuitesparseconfig.a Status in “suitesparse” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The config library is only available as a .a which is not compiled with -fPIC. Thus, linking into shared libraries fails on AMD64. Attaching a minimal program to trigger the bug. gcc -shared -fPIC -o test.so suitetest.cpp -lumfpack -lsuitesparseconfig To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/suitesparse/+bug/1319687/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
