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Description of problem:
I am including a patch here based on my experience packaging octave for Fedora Extras 4. The octave-devel package is missing a dependency on readline-devel and on octave itself. The mkoctfile script in octave-devel will fail without the libraries included in both of these packages.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Remove octave and readline-devel, install octave-devel, and try to compile a file using mkoctfile (some files that can be compiled using mkoctfile can be found in examples/ in the octave source tree).

  

Additional info:

The patch below fixes this bug as well as two other ones:
1. The CFLAGS set in the configure command are useless because octave is written in c++, so it should be CXXFLAGS instead.
2. The libdir needs to be set in the configure command, otherwise mkoctfile looks for things in /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64 on x86_64.

Patch:
--- octave.spec.~1~     2005-06-23 10:14:08.000000000 -0500
+++ octave.spec 2005-06-23 10:15:27.000000000 -0500
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 %package devel
 Summary: Development headers and files for Octave
 Group: Development/Libraries
+Requires: %{name} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} readline-devel

 %description devel
 The octave-devel package contains files needed for developing
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@
 %build
 LC_ALL=POSIX
 export LC_ALL
-CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fPIC -D_GNU_SOURCE" ./configure --enable-dl --enable-shared=yes --enable-rpath --enable-lite-kernel --enable-picky-flags --enable-static=no --with-g77 --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info
+CXXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fPIC -D_GNU_SOURCE" ./configure --enable-dl --enable-shared=yes --enable-rpath --enable-lite-kernel --enable-picky-flags --enable-static=no --with-g77 --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info --libdir=%{_libdir}

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