Building octave 2.0.8 and later on Linux

[Dirk Laurie]

I downloaded octave 2.0.8 with the idea of building it first,
applying the 2.0.9 patch, and re-making.  I'm running Red Hat
4.1 Linux.

Problem 1: termcap.h not found
Solved: ln -s /usr/include/ncurses/termcap.h /usr/include/ 
Query: since octave seems to use kpathsea, why isn't termcap.h
found in the subdirectory?

Problem 2: ld: cannot open -lieee: No such file or directory
Not solved; can't even identify a package offering libieee.a
or similar.

Dirk