need help building octave

[Brent Fulgham]

> There is a ticket with a patch to update octave to 2.9.15 (though  
> 2.9.16 is already out) which you could try if 2.9.9 doesn't build for  
> you:
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12937
>

I can give the updated octave a try; if it works, I can commit the port.

I'm not sure why the Port maintainer has not changed to gcc-4.2 for the PPC port; perhaps he doesn't have access to hardware?

I'll run builds on my x86_64 and PPC Leopard machines and see if anything bad happens.

Thanks,

-Brent