mex files for different architectures

[Moritz Borgmann]

We are in the situation, probably not too exotic, where we run the 
same MATLAB/Octave code on different architectures such as Solaris 
and x86. What is the recommended practice to deal with mex files? 
Contrary to MATLAB, Octave does not have architecture-dependent mex 
suffixes. Do people make subdirectories for each architecture in 
directories containing the .c files, and then add one of those 
subdirectories to the Octave path? Before I cook up something along 
those lines, I'd like to hear how other users do it and if there's a 
"best practice" solution already.

The only information I could find was a post by Paul Kienzle in 2006:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers/3051

> Octave deals with this by putting oct-files for different platforms
> in different directories.  The same mechanism will work for mex.

Thanks,

Moritz