Hello All,
For those who run Octave on RPM-based Linux distributions (RedHat,
Mandrake, SuSE, etc), I have successfully created a .spec file to build
an RPM package of Octave-Forge. I build octave and octave-forge from CVS
regularly, and I'm curious whether there is interest in my providing
these builds in RPM form (it would be based on RedHat 8.0). This could
either be on the Sourceforge site, or I could put a link to my own page
on the new Octave Wiki, for example.
Also, before I make my packages available for everyone, I have a
question. When octave is installed, the file /usr/share/octave/ls-R is
created. As far as I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong) this is for the
benefit of the kpathsearch library (for faster searches?), but octave is
still capable of finding files in /usr/share/octave even if they are not
included in ls-R. What is the benefit of this file, and should my
install scripts for octave-forge update it?
Quentin Spencer
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