When building with rpm, first the sources are compiled, then they are installed into a staging area where the package is created. Unfortunately, running "make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" rewrites conf.make with the new $DESTDIR path, which leads to recompilation of a few files, with t...

The callable library, libpolymake.so, has two undefined symbols: xmlGetExternalEntityLoader xmlSetExternalEntityLoader I see that support/corelib.make builds Ext.so with LIBXML2_LIBS, but does not use those libraries when building the CallableLib target, which includes all of the *.o files in Ext.so.

Thanks for your reply. Here's the next issue. I'm building with perl 5.14.2. The build stopped like this: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jamesjer/rpmbuild/BUILD/polymake-2.11/build.x86_64/apps/graph' /usr/bin/perl perl/polymake --script configure_java polymake: ERROR: Undefined subroutine &Po...

I'm going to post a series of short notes about problems I've encountered while trying to make a Fedora package of polymake. Fedora cannot ship JavaView, due to its license, but can ship jReality, so I want to configure polymake --with-java and --without-javaview. This doesn't work in version 2.11 t...

Hello, I am part of a small group of people engaged in packaging mathematical software for the Fedora Linux distribution. I've been looking at polymake recently. The first challenge is that the nauty license does not permit redistribution by Fedora. I have attempted to port polymake to bliss instead...