I've been using Octave 2.9.15 on a Mac (Intel) under X.4.11. When
Octave 3.0.0 became available a few days ago I decided to update my
installation to it.
Not wanting to dump the older app, residing in /Applications,
until I had
a chance to test the new one, I renamed the old one
Octave-2.9.15.app,
then dragged the new Octave.app from the .dmg file to the /
Applications
folder. I expected to have to tell the new one the path to search
for my
personal script files and functions.
Instead, when I open the new Octave.app it announces
warning: addpath: /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/
share/...
octave/2.9.15/m/<filename>
where as in Octave '...' denotes continuation, and '<filename>'
refers
to different files. To the command 'path' the respond is
/Users/dushanm/Octave
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/site/m/
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/site/m/
startup
So from somewhere it got correct information about the path to my
personal files (the first reference), but wrong information about
other
paths.
I looked everywhere on my system for some file that refers to
'2.9.15'
and found exactly 5 files, 4 of them in ~/Trash, with that
reference.
In each case it was in a comment line. Where in the world is Octave
getting all this information, much of it wrong? First I'd like to
understand this, and second I want to correct it.