Re: trouble compiling

[Luca Citi]

Jordi, you are right, I should have warned about what
$ hg st -un0 | xargs -0 rm
does before suggesting people to use it. I naively assumed they were
in my same situation: trying to build a pristine version of octave
before even starting to make changes.
As you suggest building outside the mercurial rep is the way to go.
The sequence

 address@hidden:~/octave$ ./autogen && cd ..
 address@hidden:~$ mkdir oct-build && cd oct-build
 address@hidden:~/oct-build$ ../octave/configure && make

should probably be made clearer in a few places like the HACKING file and also

http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Build_from_source
and
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Building-the-Development-Sources.html#Building-the-Development-Sources

Thanks,
Luca