Re: Issues with build Fedora RPMs of octave packages

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Sep-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| What about the attached patch. This means that if we have the PKG_ADD
| file in the same directory as gsl_sf.oct, and the PKG_ADD file contains
| an autoload, then the autoload above might be simplified to
| 
| autoload ("airy_Ai_deriv", "gsl_sf.oct")
| 
| The patch does the following
| 
| * Modify Fautoload so that
| 1) If the path to the files is absolute, use it
| 2) If not, find the directory containing the currently run script,
| concatenate with the file, and if this concatenation points to a file
| that exists, use it, else
| 3) Assume the file name is relative, issue a warning and use it for the
| autoload..
| * Modify mk_pkg_add to use the simplier form above..

This looks OK to me, so please check it in.

Thanks,

jwe