octave-forge

[mgray]

When I try to build octave-forge 2004-11-16 for 2.1.62 after installing
Octave 2.1.70 I get the following error message:

checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for mkoctfile... mkoctfile
conftest.cc:2:28: octave/version.h: No such file or directory
conftest.cc:3:29: octave/defaults.h: No such file or directory
conftest.cc:27: error: expected `,' or `;' before 
"OCTAVE_LOCALFCNFILEPATH"
conftest.cc:28: error: expected `,' or `;' before 
"OCTAVE_LOCALOCTFILEPATH"
conftest.cc:29: error: expected `,' or `;' before "OCTAVE_LOCALARCHLIBDIR"
conftest.cc:30: error: expected `,' or `;' before 
"OCTAVE_CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE"
conftest.cc:31: error: expected `,' or `;' before "OCTAVE_VERSION"
configure: error: Could not run mkoctfile


It looks like the version.h and defaults.h were not installed after 'make 
install' in Octave 2.1.70

It worked fine under 2.1.69.

Any ideas?

Thanks



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