From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Oct 19 13:02:23 1999
Subject: Newfile: autogen.sh
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Geoff Jacobsen <geoffj at casquet dot inet dot net dot nz>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:00:53 -0500 (CDT)

On 15-Oct-1999, Geoff Jacobsen <geoffj at casquet dot inet dot net dot nz> wrote:

| I noticed that there isnt an "autogen.sh" file for octave so I've made
| one.  It includes what I had to do to get octave to compile from a
| "maintainer-clean" distribution.
| 
| This has only been tested on Debian (Potato) GNU/Linux.
| 
| The file goes in the top directory, naturally.

Thanks.  I added your script with one small change.  I changed the
line

 #! /bin/bash

to be

 #! /bin/sh 

because the script doesn't seem to depend on bash features and not
everyone has /bin/bash.

jwe