liboctave standalone

[Marcin Baranowski]

Hi!
It is possible to use liboctave as standalone library to link with C++
applications. It has nice C++ classes interface. 
Unfortunately, it requires some libraries, that absolutery aren't needed by
non-interactive applications (or applications with graphical frontends).

It's possible to move some symbols from liboctave to octave binary, for example.
These are: pic/cmd-edit.o pic/cmd-hist.o pic/oct-rl-edit.o pic/oct-rl-hist.o
(both requires libreadline and libncurses). Also, little change in
liboctave/str-vec.cc: 
int line_length = command_editor::terminal_cols ();
to
int line_length = 80;
Now, it's enough to link applications with -loctave -lcruft -lg2c -ldl

How about this idea? Was it dissucced before?

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