[OctDev] Automatically generated files and RPM binaries

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

I think I mentioned on one of the lists a while ago that I had written a 
spec file for generating RPM binaries, and I recall RPM binaries being 
mentioned recently by someone else. The file I currently have has two 
strings that will change from one build to the next: the current octave 
version and current octave-forge version. I would like to make it so 
these are taken care of automatically, but I'm trying to figure out when 
this should happen. The octave version is detected at the configure 
stage. The octave-forge version is not detected anywhere that I can 
tell, but it is set in release.sh. I suppose it may be possible to grep 
OCTAVE_FORGE_VERSION.m to find it out when configuring, but I'm not sure 
what makes the most sense and I'm not that familiar with the GNU 
autotools. Suggestions?

Quentin Spencer