[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#477556: Fwd: Initialization of load_path at startup

[Kim Hansen]

I think this is a fix for the bug.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kim Hansen <kimhanse at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: Initialization of load_path at startup
To: John Swensen <jpswensen at comcast.net>
Cc: maintainers at octave.org


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:02 PM, John Swensen <jpswensen at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am having a strange problem with the load_path while working on OctaveDE.
>  Below I have listed the results of the path() command just after startup.
>  I have been searching for how the load_path is initialized at startup and
> cannot figure out how in the world that extra line is getting injected when
> I start up octave_main from OctaveDE, and it is not happening when simply
> running octave.
>
>
> First 3 lines of output of path() command in Octave when executed from
> Octave.app
> .
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/site/m/startup
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/libexec/octave/3.0.1/oct/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1
>
>
> First 3 lines of output of path() command in Octave when running in
> OctaveDE.app
> .
> ./Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/site/m
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/site/m/startup

I think this is the same bug as
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477556, and I also
think I have found a solution, patch is attached.

I am not really sure why we start with "." in the xpath variable, as
"." always is in path, I have just tried to fix the bug without
creating a new one.

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Kim Hansen
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-- 
Kim Hansen
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2860 Søborg
Fastnet: 3956 2437 -- Mobil: 3091 2437
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