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author Christoph Willing2017-04-17 15:55:36 +0200
committer Willy Sudiarto Raharjo2017-04-22 03:10:57 +0200
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academic/suitesparse: Updated for version 4.5.4 + new maintainer
Signed-off-by: Christoph Willing <chris.willing@iinet.net.au>
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@@ -20,8 +20,14 @@ Suitesparse is an optional dependency for the octave package.
NOTES:
-* CHOLMOD can also be compiled to use the METIS library, but it is not
-used here because its licensing terms exclude it from Octave.
+* CHOLMOD is now compiled to use the METIS library. It was not
+used previously because the licensing terms of earlier METIS
+versions excluded it from Octave in some circumstances. Recent
+versions of METIS now use the Apache License Version 2.0 and
+should cause no problems. However if it is still desired to
+build CHOLMOD without METIS, set the USEMETIS environment
+variable to "no" when running the SlackBuild e.g.
+ USEMETIS=no sh suitesparse.SlackBuild
* CXSparse is a superset of CSparse, and the two share common header
names, so it does not make sense to build both. CXSparse is built