Re: failure installing octave 2.1.50 on suse linux 9.0

[Henry F. Mollet]

Can somebody help me with my confusion about echo $PATH, PATH, EXEC_PATH,
and LOADPATH at the octave prompt. I assume the first should give the value
of the variable PATH but I get info about echo. The second one gives a
warning that I don't understand and the two path are from my octavrc located
in in my home directory.  The EXEC_PATH must be the default directory
created by Fink during installation. Finally LOADPATH seems to be again the
paths from my octaverc but starts out with two ":". Then there is a m-file
called PATH.m or is it path.m mentioned in the warning?
Henry


octave:1> echo $PATH
*** echo:
 - Command: echo options
     Control whether commands are displayed as they are executed.  Valid
     options are:
    `on'
          Enable echoing of commands as they are executed in script
          files.
cut

octave:2> PATH
warning: near line 2, column 1:
>>> PATH
warning: function name `path' does not agree with function file name
`/sw/share/octave/2.1.46/m/miscellaneous/PATH.m'
LOADPATH contains the following directories:
  
  /sw/share/doc/octave/examples
  /Users/mollet/CandO/epstk2

octave:3> EXEC_PATH
EXEC_PATH = :/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:.:/usr/X11R6/bin

octave:4> LOADPATH
LOADPATH = ::/sw/share/doc/octave/examples:/Users/mollet/CandO/epstk2


## Author: jwe

function p = path (varargin)

  if (nargin == 0)
    if (nargout == 0)
      stdout << "\nLOADPATH contains the following directories:\n\n  ";
      stdout << strrep (LOADPATH, ":", "\n  ") << "\n\n";
    else
      p = LOADPATH;
    endif
  else
    p = varargin{1};
    for i = 2:nargin
      p = sprintf ("%s:%s", p, varargin{i});
    endfor
    LOADPATH = p;
  endif

endfunction



on 3/2/04 5:43 AM, Christoph Dalitz at address@hidden
wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:31:34 +0100 (MET)
> "Björn Florack" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> 5) trying to execute it by calling "octave" or "octave-2.1.50" returns with
>> the message 
>> "bash: octave: command not found" (even though it exists with seemingly
>> proper rights, i.e. rwxr-xr-x)
>> 
> Is /usr/local/bin in your search path? What is the output of "echo $PATH"?
> 
> Christoph
> 
> 
> 
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