LOADPATH ignored (2.9.6)

[Austin Lund]

I don't know if the 2.9.* versions are supported, but I thought I would 
ask anyway.  I seem to have the problem that my LOADPATH variable is 
ignored.  This makes running octave-forge pretty hard.  I have:

octave:5> LOADPATH
LOADPATH = /home/lund/octave-forge/oct:/home/lund/octave-forge//:

and as a test I put a script called test1.m in the octave-forge directory:

octave:12> pwd
/home/lund/octave-forge
octave:13> ls test1.m
test1.m

Then:

octave:14> cd
octave:15> test1
error: `test1' undefined near line 15 column 1

Has the usage of LOADPATH changed?  Should I be setting a different 
variable for 2.9.6.  I have gcc 3.4.5 (old I know) and complied with the 
patch as per advertised on the webpage.  Does this break load-path.cc?