Minor configure item and Fedora 9

[Quentin Spencer]

Michael D Godfrey wrote:
> When compiling on a new Fedora 9 x86 system I noticed
> something that I had noticed in the past:
>
> When compiling release-3-0.x:
> If suitesparse and suitesparse-devel (both i386 ans x86)
> are installed, but blas and blas-devel are not installed, the
> ./configure missing libraries message says that
> CHOLMOD library is missing.  I would be helpful if the
> test for blas (not a part of suitesparse) were done separately,
> and reported if it is missing.
>   

I thought that blas-devel was dependency of suitesparse-devel. I'll 
check into this and fix it if it's not true.

> The only other problems with Fedora 9 were:
> 1. hdf5-1.8.0-1.fc9 is not compatible with Octave.  They have
>     changed some calls so that arguments do not match.
>   

There is an environment variable that you can set to fix this. I forget 
what it is, but I recommend looking at the SPEC file from the 3.0.1 SRPM 
in Fedora 9 to see how it is done there.

> 2. The f9 rpm for blas is currently broken. It does not install
>     the /usr/lib64 libs correctly.  Since this is the same blas as
>     for f8, that an be used (or just copy the correct libraries
>     from an f8 (x86) system.
> make check ran with 3 errors.
>
> For some reason, the ./configure of the main (default)
> branch is going very wrong: does not find suitesparse libs
> and dies on test for  sizeof(short).  I will try to discover why.
>
> Michael Godfrey
>