Octave-forge build

[Jason Russler]

Hello all,
I have a user that requires a build of octave 2.9.4 with Octave-forge.  
Attempts to build octave-forge-2006.03.17 with octave-2.9.4 results in 
the configure failing when it can't find two header files:

$ ./configure
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: syntax error before string constant
conftest.cc:28: syntax error before string constant
conftest.cc:29: syntax error before string constant
conftest.cc:30: syntax error before string constant
conftest.cc:31: syntax error before string constant
configure: error: Could not run mkoctfile

These header files are present in an install of Octave 2.1.x, for which 
this octave-forge CVS is apparently targeted, but not 2.9.4.  However 
the requesting user indicated to me that this octave-forge release 
should build for the most recent development version of Octave.   What 
do I need to do to make that work?  (I'm not a user of Octave or Matlab 
but an administrator of systems.)
Thanks for any help I can get,
Jason



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