[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#410070: octave2.9: test.m does not pick up file in current working directory

[Thomas Weber]

Package: octave2.9
Version: 2.9.9-7
Severity: important
Tags: pending

The current version of test.m in Octave 2.9 does not pick up the file in the
current working directory, if there's a similarly named file later in Octave's
loadpath:

octave2.9:1> pwd
ans = /home/weber/audio

octave2.9:2> help wavwrite.m
wavwrite.m is the file ./wavwrite.m

octave2.9:3> test ("wavwrite.m")
????? /usr/share/octave/2.9.9/m/audio/wavwrite.m has no tests available

This has been fixed in upstream's CVS.

Severity important, as this makes developing unit tests for Octave itself in a
local directory difficult.

  Thomas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages octave2.9 depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-20.5      Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  atlas3-sse2 [liblapack.s 3.6.0-20.5      Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                    3.1.2-1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.6.ds1-11    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.1.1-21      GCC support library
ii  libgfortran1             4.1.1-21        Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0                 4.11-2          linear programming kit (shared lib
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 [ 1.6.5-3         Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5              5.5-5           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3                 6.7-1           Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libreadline5             5.2-2           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6               4.1.1-21        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libufsparse              1.2-7           collection of libraries for comput
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-8           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  texinfo                  4.8.dfsg.1-4    Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-13      compression library - runtime

octave2.9 recommends no packages.

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