cannot find -lmetis during 'sudo make install INSTALL=/usr/local' about suitesparse

[carlosrojas]

You just need to install metis the link is provided in SuiteParse README.

Some codes optionally use METIS 4.0.1
(http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis). To use METIS, place a copy of
the metis-4.0 directory in the same directory containing this README file.
Be sure that you do not have a nested metis-4.0/metis-4.0 directory; SuiteSparse
won't find METIS if you do this, which can happen with a zip file of metis-4.0
on Windows. The use of METIS will improve the ordering quality.

[jluttine]

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't know. This repository just contains copies of the official releases (not the most recent ones, haven't had time to add those), I'm not involved in the project in any way. Perhaps you'll find some help from http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html. I'll leave this open just in case someone else has the same issue or is able to help.

[CodeLenz]

I think the problem is in line 53 of Suitesparse_config.mk

ifeq (,$(findstring -DNPARTITION, $(CHOLMOD_CONFIG)))

that should be

ifeq (,$(findstring -DNPARTITION, $(CONFIG_PARTITION)))

Doing this modification, I could compile successfully.