From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Oct 13 10:05:58 1997
Subject: Octave 2.0.5
From: rbeardsl at perc dot arco dot com (Beardsley)
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:05:03 -0500


Hi, John,

After assorted adventures, I'm using Octave 2.0.5 and am very pleased 
with it.  I built it under SunOS 4.1.3_U1 w/ very little difficulty.  
I'll be doing a Solaris 2.5.1 build later today.

For SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sighandlers.cc needs to have the following redefined:

SIG_IGN
SIG_DFL

The SunOS header defines them w/ a cast of "( void (*)())" which needs
to be rewritten as "( void (*)(int))"

I simply added an "#undef..., #define...." to sighandlers.cc.  Probably
NOT what you want to do.  If you want further details let me know.
I forgot to bring the exact definitions to work.

BTW I've not run the test suite yet since I didn't have DejaGnu 
installed.  I'll try to build DejaGnu this evening.

I noticed a comment about wanting to expand the signal processing
functions.  Do you have a list of features?  Ideally, function
prototypes w/ a brief description.  Since I'll be using Octave to
verify the equations for some signal processing routines I'm writing
for work, it's pretty trivial for me to write .m files in the evening
and send to you.

Using Octave at home this weekend was a real treat after using MATLAB
for a couple of days at work.  I'm really looking forward to being
able to drop using MATLAB entirely.  As a contractor/consultant I'm
rather reluctant to spend much time learning the nuances of packages
I can't afford and can't presume to have provided.

Thanks,
Reg Beardsley
rhb at acm dot org