Re: Issues with build Fedora RPMs of octave packages

[Michael Goffioul]

On 9/21/07, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Well are oct-files libraries? From a certain way of looking at it yes,
> > but you can't be guaranteed to be able to link to them.. Looking at the
> > issue from within Octave it would be easies to make pkg (when run as
> > root), install the packages files to
> >
> > LOCALAPIFILEDIR/<package>
> >
> > Another reason that there needs to be separate directories is that the
> > package manager might have one package loaded and others not and having
> > or the files in one path makes it harder (if not impossible) to allow
> > only a portion of the oct-files to be used.
> >
>
> There is another issue with using LOCALAPIFILEDIR or something like it..
>  The default path of octave is set to contain these directories and all
> sub-directories of these. A better choice might be
>
> <libexec>/octave/packages/getarch()/<package>

I guess this will completely defeat the current strategy used in the java
package to find octave.jar at runtime... :-(
I think I'll then install octave.jar also in libexec, even if it's
arch-independent.

Michael.