Re: Newer Versions of Octave Struggle with Character Strings

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 09:34:28 -0700, evansste wrote:
> What I've noticed is that Octave now doesn't seem to make changes based on
> my .octaverc file.  The .octaverc file is in my home directory.  Because the
> .octaverc file is no longer working, I thought that compiling from source
> may have caused Octave to look elsewhere for this file.  So I put a copy of
> the file in the directory from which Octave was complied.  However, this
> still didn't work.  Is this behavior normal?  Doesn't Octave always look in
> the home directory?
> 
> I compiled Octave by strictly following the detailed procedure in the
> following link:
> 
> https://www.scivision.co/compiling-octave-4-on-ubuntu/
> 
> Do you know why Octave isn't using my .octaverc file?  I'm using Lubuntu
> 16.04.

Are you sure it isn't reading your ~/.octaverc file? Can you put
something like "somevar = 42;" in the file and see if somevar is defined
when Octave is up?

-- 
mike