csdp: Solver for semidefinite programs#

Description#

This is a fast SDP solver written in C, with a callable library namely, an autotool’ed version of CSDP, by Brian Borchers, see https://projects.coin-or.org/Csdp

License#

Common Public License Version 1.0

Upstream Contact#

Dmitrii Pasechnik <dimpase+sage@gmail.com>

Special Update/Build Instructions#

csdp is an autotool’ed version of CSDP, see https://projects.coin-or.org/Csdp, developed in its own repository at https://github.com/dimpase/csdp.

To update to a new version, you need to bump the version number in configure.ac and rerun autotools (autoreconf -fiv). Any changes should be merged to the upstream repo.

The build is done with NOSHORTS variable defined; this makes it compatible with packages, where NOSHORTS must be defined, e.g. https://github.com/dimpase/pycsdp; also the Sage Cython interface needs NOSHORTS defined.

Detailed steps to build the spkg are as follows. You need

  • git

  • autotools and libtool (the full autohell suite, version at least 2.67)

With these ready:

  • ./spkg-src

  • copy the resulting csdp-<version>.tar.gz to SAGE_ROOT/upstream, or somewhere else appropriate

Type#

optional

Dependencies#

  • $(BLAS)

Version Information#

package-version.txt:

6.2.p1

Equivalent System Packages#

arch:

$ sudo pacman -S  coin-or-csdp

See https://repology.org/project/coin-or-csdp/versions, https://repology.org/project/csdp/versions

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because spkg-configure.m4 has not been written for this package; see trac ticket #27330