Re: gnulib and automake

[Benjamin Lindner]

> | make now completes beyond building all dld-functions.
> | It's stuck building the doumentation, but I expected that.
> | I need to translate my local patches and get shared libstdc++ working
> | with libtool to get octave finally up and running
>
> Does it link and run now, even without a shared libstdc++?

Yes it linkes all executables and libraries. It also in principle runs,
but there are issues with throwing (and catching) exceptions across
dll's if you don't link against shared libstdc++, so I prefer to
use it.

> What are the problems with building the documentation?  Is it anything
> that we should fix before checking the the changes to the main
> development branch?  

No, this is a pure msys issue. I use MiKTeX for building documentation.
MiKTeX, as native win application, uses windows style paths.
However, ocatve's configure procedure is run within msys, and uses thus
msys style paths, which - consequently - miktex does not understand.

> If not, then I'd like to go ahead and check it in
> today.

go ahead.
benjamin