[Bug 472639] New: Review Request: Scilab - Numerical Analysis toolkit

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Summary: Review Request: Scilab - Numerical Analysis toolkit

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472639

           Summary: Review Request: Scilab - Numerical Analysis toolkit
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 9
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: mycae at yahoo.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: notting at redhat.com, fedora-package-review at redhat.com
        Depends on: 439630,464781,468797
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora


Spec URL: http://dhd.selfip.com/427e/scilab.spec
SRPM URL: http://dhd.selfip.com/427e/scilab-5.0.1-1.fc9.src.rpm
Description: Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations
providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific
applications.

rpmlint -iv output is empty.

Notes:
*Requires Javahelp2, which is only available in F10 (I believe). I cheated and
used an RPM available here:
(http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/devel/i386/javahelp2-2.0.05-5.fc10.noarch.html).
Package review is bug 439263.
*In-program help has not been built, we probably want this.
*The makefile that is included seems to call gcc & gfortran for the install
target to perform some final linking operations -- this seems very very odd.
What to do? Do I need to make gcc and gfortran "Requires:" of scilab? It also
really slows down the %install target of rpmbuild.
*I get a *lot* of "file listed twice" warnings from rpmbuild -- is * recursive
in the %files section?

Notes to other packagers/reviewers:
*Scilab is fairly big. It takes a while to complete a build -- ~1hr on a 2.1
GHz machine. If you plan to rebuild more than once or twice, use ccache to
speed it up a little (not all the time is spent on C/C++ compiling though).
*I am having problems getting PVM to link correctly, as such I have disabled it
-- if anyone wants to have a shot at patching this, please do. I have left the
patches that fix a few problems with PVM in there for anyone looking at it.
Probably just needs someone to correct the PVM_LIB value.
*Need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find JVM (libjava, libjvm, libhpi) before
running scilab-bin. It can't find it for some reason
*I have not tested parallel building to see if it works, how do we test this?

Finally my upload bandwidth is not terrible, but it isn't massive, so patience
when getting the SRPM :)

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