testing Octave

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "Mumit" == Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes:

 Mumit> Now that octave doesn't package GNU info reader anymore, at
 Mumit> least this problem is solved ;-) You can for now simply take
 Mumit> info out of the makefile and just let it go ...

Hardly on topic, but the configure test that's apparently coming out
wrong is in the configuration of the (hacked?) readline library in
the current source.