Patch for hard-coded "ln -s" (MSVC/MSYS)

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Feb-2007, address@hidden wrote:

| I'd like to propose the attached patch, which makes octave Makefile's to
| use $(LN_S) instead of hard-coded \"ln / ln -s\". The main reason is that
| this does not work under MSYS shell:
|  
| ln [-s] file1 file2 ... fileN directory
|  
| The patch additionally use \"-9\" instead of \"--best\" for gzip/bzip2: the 
version
| of bzip2 shipped with MSYS does not support --best. This change is minor.
| 
| Finally, it also comment one line in the \"dist\" target of octMakefile, 
because
| this does not work under MSYS (it does not work neither under Cygwin):
|  
| for dir in ; do ...; done

I applied this patch.  Instead of commenting out the line, I removed
all instances of DISTDIRS since is is no longer used for anything.

Thanks,

jwe