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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2018 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+// http://ceres-solver.org/
+//
+// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+//
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+// * Neither the name of Google Inc. nor the names of its contributors may be
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+//
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+//
+// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
+
+#include "ceres/float_suitesparse.h"
+
+#if !defined(CERES_NO_SUITESPARSE)
+
+namespace ceres {
+namespace internal {
+
+std::unique_ptr<SparseCholesky> FloatSuiteSparseCholesky::Create(
+    OrderingType ordering_type) {
+  LOG(FATAL) << "FloatSuiteSparseCholesky is not available.";
+  return std::unique_ptr<SparseCholesky>();
+}
+
+}  // namespace internal
+}  // namespace ceres
+
+#endif  // !defined(CERES_NO_SUITESPARSE)