Re: release 3.0.2 again

[Vic Norton]

I have run Thomas Treichl's patched version of Octave.app 3.0.2 from  
BBEdit. The patch cures the load_path problem I reported in
   https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2008-August/ 
010660.html

Regards,

Vic

On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it took me a while (like always ;) but finally I found the origin  
> of that problem. There has been a change to load-path.cc from  
> Octave version 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 from
>
>   static void
>   maybe_add_path_elts (std::string& path, const std::string& dir)
>   {
>     std::string tpath = genpath (dir);
>
>     if (! tpath.empty ())
>       path += dir_path::path_sep_str + tpath;
>   }
>
> into
>
>   static void
>   maybe_add_path_elts (std::string& path, const std::string& dir)
>   {
>     std::string tpath = genpath (dir);
>
>     if (! tpath.empty ())
>       {
>         if (path.empty ())
>           path = tpath;
>         else
>           path += dir_path::path_sep_str + tpath;
>       }
>   }
>
> With this new function the '--path' option from command line does  
> not work anymore in 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 on my system. I replaced that  
> new function in the 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 sources with the function from  
> the 3.0.0 sources and recreated the binaries of Octave.app once  
> again. Both (3.0.1 and 3.0.2) then accepted the '--path' option  
> correctly.
>
> Maybe this also addresses Vic's problem who found out another  
> strange path problem at startup (but I'm not sure about this as I  
> don't have any BBedit available)
>
>   https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2008-August/ 
> 010660.html
>
> Could we revert the change of maybe_add_path_elts for the 3.0.3  
> version and use the 3.0.0 function once again?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
>   Thomas