Path search problems on cygwin

[Quentin Spencer]

I recently tried the latest cygwin versions of octave and 
octave-forge--many thanks to those whose work made them possible. Before 
stating my problem I should note that I may have unknowingly created my 
problems by moving my cygwin installation to a network drive which 
initially resulted in some other non-octave problems. (The idea is to 
make it possible for co-workers to run simulations overnight for me on 
their windows boxes without installing anything locally. With the rising 
cost of natural gas, we can heat the building this winter with our CPUs 
instead :). ) When octave starts up, for some reason it is not picking 
up the octave-forge path. The output of the path command is:

 /usr/lib/octave/2.1.72/site/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//
 /usr/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v13/i686-pc-cygwin//
 /usr/lib/octave/site/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//
 /usr/share/octave/2.1.72/site/m//
 /usr/share/octave/site/api-v13/m//
 /usr/share/octave/site/m//
 /usr/lib/octave/2.1.72/oct/i686-pc-cygwin//
 /usr/share/octave/2.1.72/m//

The lastest octave-forge package puts the m files in 
/usr/share/octave/site/m/octave-forge/, which should be covered by the 
"/usr/share/octave/site/m//" entry above, but for some reason octave 
doesn't see any of the octave-forge m files. If I explicitly try to 
force octave to search the octave-forge path ty inserting the command 
path([path,"/usr/share/octave/site/m/octave-forge//"]) in .octaverc, 
octave now sees all of the octave-forge functions, but at startup I get

warning: in mark_as_command near line 1, column 1:
warning: mark_as_command: invalid use inside function body

followed by several more repetitions of the second warning. Octave is 
now usable, but the warnings are a little annoying. What causes these 
warnings? Why does octave not search the octave-forge path? Has anyone 
else seen this behavior?

-Quentin




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