Re: Initialization of load_path at startup

[Thomas Weber]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.05.2008, 16:52 +0200 schrieb Kim Hansen:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:02 PM, John Swensen <address@hidden> 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.

I confirm this fixes the bug in Debian. John, can you comment on the
patch?

        Thomas