Re: Issues with build Fedora RPMs of octave packages

[Michael Goffioul]

On 9/21/07, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Michael Goffioul wrote:
> > 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,
>
> I haven't applied this and won't till at least one distribution packager
> confirms that it is sufficient to meet their packaging rules and
> acceptable. I'd be happy if someone proposes an alternative location.
> The patch I propose only needs a single line changed to propose any
> alternative location.
>
> I also wonder what should be done on Windows.. Should the architecture
> dependent files just be grouped with the package files as currently
> done, or for consistency should they be in
>
> <libexec>/octave/packages?getarch()/<package>
>
> as the proposed patch does. I'd be happy either way, and the change to
> the previous patch to allow the previous behavior under windows is minimal..

I'd go for the same location on all platforms. However, my first
reaction was wrong. I forgot that the look for octave.jar is not based on some
Win32 specific API (GetModuleFileName), but on the octave load_path
class. So, I should be able to put the octave.jar file in any directory as
long as it's in octave's path. I'll just have to adapt the code of __java__.cc
a little bit (after you commit your changes, if you do).

Michael.