[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45369] pkg build leads to duplication of PKG_ADD and PKG_DEL files

[Julien Bect]

Follow-up Comment #21, bug #45369 (project octave):

> There is another issue related it. demos and tests
> from functions in src/ are lost during install because
> the source files are removed after building. If they are
> kept around for this purpose, they would still be available
> in binary distributions. This would also make them available
> for the binary installs.

The only think that make a "source tarball" different form a "binary tarball",
currently, is that ./src has been removed from the second one. This has the
important consequence that configure_make() doesn't try to build a second
time.

So, if you decide to keep ./src in binary tarballs, it means that pkg () will
have to distinguish otherwise between source and binary tarballs. Not so hard,
though: we could decide that the configure/make step is skipped if the
arch-dependent directory is already present inside ./inst (that's where it is
in binary tarballs).

Now, assuming that ./src is not removed directly after building, what exactly
would you like to do with demos/tests blocks from C++ source files? Do you
also intend to *install* the content of src, or do you intend to extract those
blocks and store them somewhere?

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