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Path search problems on cygwin
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Quentin Spencer |
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Path search problems on cygwin |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:04:14 -0600 |
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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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