Building SuiteSparse (PPC)

[Dan Stowell]

Hi -

In order to get octave back up and running I'm trying to install
SuiteSparse. I'm having similar issues to the ones discussed in this
thread:
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-January/001026.html
(Except I'm on PPC rather than Intel.)

If I run "sudo port install SuiteSparse" the tool tries to fetch
"patch-complex-type" from various locations but fails to find it, and
gives up.

I have tried Anthony's suggestion (download SuiteSparse-2.2.1.tar.gz
and drop it into the right place) but this doesn't change the
behaviour - the port command still wants to find and apply the
patches.

I'd be grateful for any advice.

Best
Dan