From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Fri Nov  5 09:04:28 1993
Subject: Trying to install octave on Sparc-10 4.1.3
From: James Preston <prestonj at src dot umd dot edu>
To: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 10:04:22 -0500


I am a long-time MatLab user and am interested in octave, but I am
having quite a bit of trouble instaling it here. 
I am using gcc-2.5.0, and I am not sure if the changes between this
gcc and the last gcc that octave was compiled with are causing the problems.

Problems:
	Can't tell if I should be using a long or an int for time_t;
	when octave tries to link, it cannot find some IO functions
	or ___z_sqrt and a couple of other complex-type funcs.
	I have poked around looking for where these funcs were
	referenced and haven't found it yet.

	also, octave occasionally includes strings.h, but I don't
	believe there is a strings.h in the later gcc versions.
	everything seems to be in string.h, so including the system
	version confuses things.

maybe I am just in need of a patch , does anyone know??

thanks,
	jlp
prestonj at src dot umd dot edu