Issues with build Fedora RPMs of octave packages

[Orion Poplawski]

I'm interested in making it easy to produce RPMs of octave packages for 
Fedora.

Starting with the rpm_template.in found in octave forge, I've got the 
following basic build/install instructions:

configure
make
make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT DISTPKG=redhat

The main problem with this is that this use octave pkg install and 
everything ends up under /usr/share/octave/packages/%name-%version/ 
including binary architecture dependent files.  This is not acceptable 
in Fedora (and other distributions) and breaks the FHS.

I have made some hacks to split the .oct files into LOCALAPIOCTFILEDIR, 
but this bring up an issue with the recommended format of PKG_ADD:

autoload ("airy_Ai_deriv", fullfile (fileparts (mfilename ("fullpath")), 
"gsl_sf.oct"));

Which expects the PKG_ADD file to be in the same directory as the .oct 
files, which is not the case with the split.

I'd appreciate some discussion to see what would be workable to support 
making RPMs of octave packages.

Thanks!

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Orion Poplawski
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