[Fwd: Re: addpath behavior]

[Svante Signell]

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From: Svante Signell <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: addpath behavior
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:33:21 +0100

On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 20:43 +0530, Amit Saha wrote:
> David Bateman wrote:
> > Amit Saha wrote:
> >> Hi!
...
> >> octave:2> addpath("/home/r00t/Writings/new/octave/part4/octave-scripts")
> >> panic: impossible state reached in file `load-path.cc' at line 657
> >> panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
> >> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> >> save to `octave-core' complete
> > Ok that looks like a bug.. Can you give more details?
> 
> Like? Does the list support attachments, then I have the core file.
> 
> 1. GNU Octave, version 3.2.2 ,Octave was configured for "i486-pc-linux-gnu".
> 
I see that you are using octave 3.2.x. These versions have a bug then
calling addpath twice in a row:
addpath('./')
addpath('./')

see
http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2010-March/010480.html
and
http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-August/009350.html