Re: --traditional switch problems

[Quentin Spencer]

Henry A. Leinhos wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have two fedora core boxes (4 and 5), both with octave 2.9.6 (the
> package version is octave-2.9.6-1.fc4 for the FC4 box).
>
> I had octave running fine a few weeks ago, then got an update from
> Redhat, and now if I try to run octave with the --traditional switch I
> get the following error message (on both boxes), and my path is blank:
>
> address@hidden ~]$ octave --traditional
> GNU Octave, version 2.9.6 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu).
> Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton.
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>
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>
> error: feval: the symbol `warn_function_name_clash' is not valid as a
> function
> error: near line 11 of file `/usr/share/octave/2.9.6/m/startup/octaverc'
>  
>
>
>
> Before I talk to the Fedora forums, I wanted to check to see if there
> was something obvious here that I was missing.
>
> Thanks,
> Henry
>  

I can confirm this on FC5, and I think this is a bug in octave. The 
various warn_ variables were eliminated with 2.9.6, and it looks like 
there are still a few erroneous reference to them in the code. I'm not 
sure why the path is empty. For the time being, you should be able to 
work around this by not using --traditional.

Quentin