Re: testing Octave

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <9808121310.AA02866@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>you write:
  > gcc  -o info dir.o display.o doc.o echo_area.o filesys.o  
  > info-utils.o info.o infodoc.o infomap.o m-x.o nodes.o search.o  
  > session.o signals.o terminal.o tilde.o window.o indices.o xmalloc.o  
  > nodemenu.o footnotes.o dribble.o variables.o gc.o man.o clib.o  
  > getopt.o getopt1.o bzero.o  strdup.o -ltermcap
  > /bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
  > _tcgetattr
  > _tcsetattr
  > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
  > 
  > BTW, this is for octave-2.0.9, the newest I could find on the gnu  
  > mirrors (but I used ftp.nluug.nl; perhaps they're left behind?).
  > 
  > Anyway, I am not going to pester the Octave author for what's  
  > probably an obscure autoconf misunderstanding of the support for  
  > termcap on NEXTSTEP3.2.
Yup.  In fact this looks awful familar to problems you've had trying
to get dejagnu/tcl/expect up and running on NeXT boxes.

tc{set,get}attr are actually used to control ttys, they have nothing
to do with termcap.

jeff