[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41129] similar warnings repeated over and over while loading OF pkgs

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41129>

                 Summary: similar warnings repeated over and over while
loading OF pkgs
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 07 Jan 2014 11:19:16 AM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Philip Nienhuis
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.0
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

After installing an mxe-built Octave-3.8.0 on Windows 7 and then having run
"build_packages" in <OCTAVE_HOME>/src (but that is all irrelevant I think),
upon next start of Octave I get an enormously long series of warning errors:


:
<scrolled out of terminal buffer>
:
warning: using continuation marker \ outside of double quoted strings is
deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Octave; near line 917 of
file 'D:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\share\octave\packages\optim-1.2.2\nonlin_min.m'

warning: using continuation marker \ outside of double quoted strings is
deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Octave; near line 918 of
file 'D:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\share\octave\packages\optim-1.2.2\nonlin_min.m'
:
<seemingly endless row of similar warnings snipped>
:
warning: using continuation marker \ outside of double quoted strings is
deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Octave; near line 1385
of file
'D:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\share\octave\packages\optim-1.2.2\nonlin_min.m'
>>


Of course, just one of those warnings would do; instead I could count maybe a
hundred while still much more were scrolled out of the terminal buffer.
That (= similar warnings repeated) is the actual bug I'd like to report.

AFAIK normally such warnings *are* issued just once (one example where it
works OK is "java_get is deprecated..." when I run test scripts in the io
package; that warning is shown just once while java_get is called many
times).

However, apparently loading OF packages is special in allowing similar
warnings to be repeated over and over again.





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