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diff --git a/academic/suitesparse/README b/academic/suitesparse/README index 376e0e0c99..d4f385acca 100644 --- a/academic/suitesparse/README +++ b/academic/suitesparse/README @@ -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 |