Packaging on Windows

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Jun-2011, Jussi Lehtola wrote:

| However, one might have to
| do tricks to fix the makefiles to compile correctly. For instance, I
| get the error 
| 
| checking whether i686-pc-mingw32-gfortran generates correct size
| integers... ./configure: line 30808: syntax error near unexpected token
| `(' ./configure: line 30808: `  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6'

We have some tests that require running binaries, so they are not
really suitable for cross compiling environments.  To fix that, we
have to either set a default in the configure script or convert the
test to be run when Octave starts (which I don't think is always
possible or desirable).

jwe