Re: Issues with build Fedora RPMs of octave packages

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 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
> 

Done

D.