Minor configure item and Fedora 9

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Michael D. Godfrey
<godfrey at isl.stanford.edu> wrote:
> John,
>> Or, even if the files BLAS files distributed with Octave are
>> sufficient, they are not yet compiled when the test is performed.
>
> It appears that I did not make this very clear.
> I understand what happened, and I figured it out by reading through
> config.log
> and configure.  That is how I discovered that the message at the end of
> the output from ./configure which said:
> CHOLMOD library not found
> really meant that CHOLMOD library was found, but BLAS library was
> missing.

Not exactly. It means that CHOLMOD was found, but could not be
successfully used.
The configure script does not contain (AFAIK) any information about
CHOLMOD on BLAS
dependence, and IMO it does not need to.

> This is not a big deal. I just thought that a clearer message might be
> helpful.
>
> The more important problem on Fedora 9 (x86) is that the configure.in
> which is
> generated when using the default branch leads to ./configure crashing on
> the same
> system that works correctly using the release-3-0-x branch.  Do you want
> any more documentation of this?  If so, please tell me what you need.
> You may
> not want to worry about this right now.  I do not feel that Fedora 9 is
> really
> ready for routine use anyhow.  I was just doing testing.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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