[OctDev] Octave Forge spec file

[Quentin H. S. <qsp...@ie...>]

Hello,

I mentioned on this list a while back that I have created a spec file 
for building RPMs of octave-forge. Paul suggested putting it in admin, 
which sounds good to me, but now I'm working on autoconfiguration. I 
need to determine the octave version and the octave-forge version and 
insert them into the spec file. As far as I can tell, this can happen at 
one of three different stages: autogen.sh, configure, or the release.sh 
script. My natural inclination is to do it in the configure script, but 
the release.sh script appears to be the only place where the 
octave-forge version is updated for version.h, and it seems like it 
would make sense to do it in the same place. Comments?

Quentin Spencer