Request for review: glpk

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:41 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> I agree, but this poses a bit of a problem. My indended application for 
> this library is octave 2.9.x. The octave configure script can't find the 
> headers if I move them into a subdirectory of /usr/include. I happen to 
> know the main developer of octave uses Debian, and the Debian package 
> for GLPK puts them in /usr/include like the upstream source. So, I would 
> have to lobby for some or all of these upstream maintainers to change 
> this, or I would have to maintain patches in octave to make this work. 
> Does anyone know another way around this?

Ask the upstream maintainer first. If he's unwilling to move to the
subdir, you could patch configure to support "--with-glpk-includedir=",
then offer that to upstream as an alternative.

~spot
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