[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54718] __run_test_suite__ doesn't preserve start or working directory

[Philip Nienhuis]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54718>

                 Summary: __run_test_suite__ doesn't preserve start or working
directory
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: philipnienhuis
            Submitted on: Mon 24 Sep 2018 04:02:16 PM CEST
                Category: Test Suite
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: philipnienhuis
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

Since a few weeks, I see in the File Browser pane in the GUI that 
__run_test_suite__  switches in turn to each directory holding the functions
to be tested. 

First (and least), AFAIU Octave isn't supposed to update the working directory
in the File Browser pane until after having returned to the prompt. Or do I
mix up with the Workspace pane?

Then (actual bug), after finishing all the tests,  the current working
directory is that where the last functions were tested [1], rather than the
one  __run_test_suite__  was started from.

[1]
C:/Programs/Octave/OCTAVE~1.0_2/mingw64/share/octave/5.0.0/etc/tests/libinterp/corefcn




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