octave 2.9.10 pkg and FreeBSD

[sam sirlin]

Hi,

I've been using 2.1.73 and octave-forge on FreeBSD and Solaris as well 
as Linux. Now I'm starting to try 2.9.10 -- looks like a lot of good 
improvements.

Built fairly easily on FreeBSD
- requires gnu sed for the fortran filter file libcruft/mkf77def
- need to add -lstdc++  to LIBS in Makeconf
- need to add a few -R/usr/local/lib/octave-2.9.10 in Makeconf

Now trying to add the octave forge packages is more messy -- they seem 
to assume
-- shell is (ba)sh  (mine is (t)csh)  Is there some way to configure the 
shell system uses?
  e.g. unpack.m  does

octave:14> pkg install plot-1.0.0.tar.gz
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/dev/sa0': No such file or 
directory

This seems to fix unpack.m for me (gunzip pipe to tar just doesn't seem 
to work, but gtar can do the whole thing)
% sws    commandlist.targz = {"gunzip -c \"%s\" | tar -x -v", ...
%             "gunzip -c \"%s\" | tar -x", ...
%             @__parse_tar__, false};
   commandlist.targz = {"gtar xvf \"%s\" ", ...
            "gtar xvf \"%s\" ", ...
            @__parse_tar__, false};
...
   % sws [status, output] = system (sprintf (strcat (command, " 2>&1"), 
file));
   xcommand = sprintf (strcat (command, " "), file);
   [status, output] = system (xcommand);

next fixing pkg.m
% sws            [status, output] = system(["export INSTALLDIR=" 
desc.dir "; make -C " src]);
             commandxx = ["export INSTALLDIR=" desc.dir "; gmake -C " src];
           [status, output] = system(commandxx);

Here for some reason sh seems to work?! Just need gmake. So now the 
whole thing seems to be building... 

a few didn't build, ...

It would be nice if pkg were more verbose and configurable, but these 
hacks seem to get it to function for me.

Sam Sirlin