Intermittent octave-2.1.57 compile failure in Red Hat 9

[Julius Smith]

In updating my octave installation, I encountered a compile failure that 
went away when I retried:

<.../octave-2.1.57> configure --enable-shared --disable-static
...
<.../octave-2.1.57> make
...
g++ -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src 
-I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob -I.
./glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -Wall -W -Wshadow -g -O2 cmd-edit.cc -o 
pic/cmd
-edit.o
cmd-edit.cc: In static member function `static std::string
   command_editor::readline(const std::string&, bool&)':
cmd-edit.cc:626: internal error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [pic/cmd-edit.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/m/util9/octave/octave-2.1.57/liboctave'
make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/m/util9/octave/octave-2.1.57'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[retry follows -- nothing was changed]

<.../octave-2.1.57> make

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*
*  To compile Octave, you will need a recent versions of...
[I checked and all requirements were met]
...
make -C liboctave all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/m/util9/octave/octave-2.1.57/liboctave'
gawk -f ./mk-ops.awk prefix=mx make_inclusive_header=mx-ops.h ./mx-ops > 
mx-ops.h-t
../move-if-change mx-ops.h-t mx-ops.h
mx-ops.h is unchanged
g++ -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src 
-I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob -I../glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -Wall -W 
-Wshadow -g -O2 cmd-edit.cc
-o pic/cmd-edit.o
g++ -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src 
-I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob -I../glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -Wall -W 
-Wshadow -g -O2 cmd-hist.cc
-o pic/cmd-hist.o
...



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