Hello,
I'm looking at including SPM12[1] as part of NeuroFedora[2]. It's primarily
written for Matlab, but it works on Octave as well. SPM upstream also
works with Octave upstream to improve Matlab compatibility etc.
Unfortunately, as a more Matlab centric package, SPM is not set up to be
set up to be installed as an Octave package like ones hosted at Octave
forge[3]. Currently, one simply runs `make && make install` in the src
directory anywhere on one's system, and then either uses the
"spm12-octave" script to run the "standalone" version of SPM, or runs it
from octave using "addpath (/path/to/spm12/build)". The source does not
contain the required files to use `pkg build, pkg install` etc. as the
template spec and octave macros suggest[4].
So, how should one approach this?
- Should I stick to `make && make install` and then manually install the
files (so, not use `pkg ...` at all)?
* If so, where should the files be installed? Should they be installed
in the standard octave directories, or in the general FHS locations?
- Should I add the bits to make it a package (locally in the spec), and
then use the rpm macros (and so treat it like a standard octave
package)? This will need a little bit of work downstream, and
upstream will most likely not accept these Octave specific bits.
[1] https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm12/
[3] https://github.com/spm/spm12
[2] https://neuro.fedoraproject.org
[4] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Octave
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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