[Pkg-octave-devel] Changing pkg-octave-dev to parse config files

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-04-27 10:01]:

> we currently start up octave for building forge package with the
> following options:
> 
> octave_options = --norc --no-history --silent --no-site-file
> 
> I would like to drop the "--norc" part, such that the system wide config
> file (/etc/octave.conf) is parsed.

In this case, we should also drop --no-site-file

> Without this change, we will have to change the scripts such that the
> library path is included when building forge packages. And I prefer to have
> only one place to change back once we understand what's going on.

What about replacin "--norc --no-site-file" by --no-init-file?  I do not
remember well, but I think that one of the goals of using --norc was to
avoid ~/.octaverc being loaded.

-- 
Rafael