octave-2.0.8-i386-cygwin32 (b18) binary available

[Mumit Khan]

I just uploaded the octave 2.0.8 binaries for Windows '95/NT (using
Cygnus' gnu-win32 project) to my gnu-win32 web page. Please see 
http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ for more
info.

>From my minimal testing, it works at least as well (or as badly, 
depending on your perspective ;-) as 2.0.5 under gnu-win32 b18.

Might want to pick up the hacked gnuplot as well if you want plotting
capabilities. Available from the same place mentioned above.

Prereqs:
    - Gnu-win32 stuff from Cygnus http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32

Doesn't work:
    - info doesn't work, so "help -i" gets you nowhere.

Not quite there:
    - Due to a bug in bash in gnu-win32, I had to modifiy the 
      install-octave script so that you have to give it a "prefix" 
      argument and the script then installs it w/out asking
      confirmation. eg., invoke install-octave as follows:
    
      % ./install-octave /Programs/octave

      Do not supply a DRIVE letter (eg., c:/Programs/octave) since that
      causes some problems (sed in this case).

    - Due to C++ front-end bugs in 970404 snapshot (one supplied with
      b17.1), building octave is a non-trivial task under b18. I 
      basically built everything with b18 c++ except for the pieces
      that use the stream classes, and built those with b17.1 c++.

The sole change to octave source code was the following:

--- sysdep.cc.~1        Mon Jun 23 23:22:06 1997
+++ sysdep.cc   Mon Jun 23 23:22:20 1997
@@ -155,6 +155,10 @@
 
 // XXX FIXME XXX -- some systems define struct __exception.
 
+#ifdef __CYGWIN32__
+# define exception __exception
+#endif
+
 #if defined (EXCEPTION_IN_MATH)
 extern "C"
 int

Regards,
Mumit -- address@hidden
http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/