SuiteSparse static/dynamic libraries

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 8, 2008, at 7:39 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  8-Apr-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | If the SuiteSparse package were modified to produce dynamic  
> libraries
> | instead, would Octave find them, or does it look specifically for  
> the
> | static ones?
>
> What do you mean by "would Octave find them?"  Do you mean would the
> configure script find them?

Yes

> The configure script doesn't go looking for files to find  
> libraries.  It only
> runs the compiler to see whether compiling and linking succeeds.

Thanks for the explanation. I've never dove into how configure scripts  
work.

Ben