Re: path: octave 3.0.0 can't find itself

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 26, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:

> I've been using Octave 2.9.15 on a Mac (Intel) under X.4.11.  When  
> Octave
> 3.0.0 became available a few days ago I decided to update my  
> installation
> to it.
>
> Not wanting to dump the old older app, residing in /Applications,  
> until I
> had a chance to test the new one, I renamed the old one  
> Octave-2.9.15.app,
> then dragged the new Octave.app from the .dmg file to the / 
> Applications
> folder.  I expected to have to tell the new one the path to search  
> for my
> personal script files and functions.
>
> Instead, when I open the new Octave.app it announces
>
>  warning: addpath: /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/ 
> share/...
>                    octave/2.9.15/m/<filename>
>
> where as in Octave '...' denotes continuation, and '<filename>'  
> refers to
> different files.  To the command 'path' the respond is
>
>  /Users/dushanm/Octave
>  /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/site/m/
>  /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/site/m/ 
> startup
>
> So from somewhere it got correct information about the path to my  
> personal
> files (the first reference), but wrong information about other paths.
>
> I looked everywhere on my system for some file that refers to  
> '2.9.15' and
> found exactly 5 files, 4 of them in ~/Trash, with that reference.   
> In each
> case it was in a comment line.  Where in the world is Octave getting  
> all
> this information, much of it wrong?  First I'd like to understand  
> this, and
> second I want to correct it.

Do you see the file ".octaverc" in your home folder when you type "ls - 
ah" in a terminal window?

If so, that is likely where the problem lies. You can verify by  
"cat .octaverc" to see the contents of the path defined in that file.

I've not tried to set up different versions of Octave on my Mac, so  
I'm not much help there.

Ben