Re: package manager patch + problem

[David Bateman]

Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
>> Looking at autoload(), it doesn't seem to load the file.
>> I suspect the which() command does, but it is not
>> immediately clear from glancing at the code.  Maybe
>> we could use the following instead:
>>
>>     autoload("glog",file_in_loadpath("gf.oct"))
>
> Yes, I also think it's due to "which": if you "which myfun"
> where myfun is an oct-file named myfun.oct, but you don't
> have a corresponding "DEFUN_DLD (myfun, ...)" statement
> in the code, then "which" fails: this means that somehow,
> the oct-file must be loaded and the symbol is searched.
>
> Michael.
>
>
>
Is it better to workaround this with the autoload commans in the PKG_ADD
files or try and figure out why which is loading the DLD functions and
try and stop it doing it..

D.

-- 
David Bateman                                address@hidden
Motorola Labs - Paris                        +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph) 
Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin    +33 6 72 01 06 33 (Mob) 
91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE                  +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax) 

The information contained in this communication has been classified as: 

[x] General Business Information 
[ ] Motorola Internal Use Only 
[ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary