From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Jun  2 10:37:03 2005
Subject: 2.1.71 does not execute the site-wide startup file
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Jeanfrancois Cardoso <cardoso at tosca dot apc dot ufr-physique dot univ-paris7 dot fr>
Cc: cardoso at tsi dot enst dot fr, bug@octave.org
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:27:57 -0400

On 30-May-2005, Jeanfrancois Cardoso wrote:

| 
| Bug report for Octave 2.1.71 configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| 	On startup, octave 2.1.71 does not execute
| 	$INSTALLDIR/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc 
| 
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| 	Launch octave with the --verbose switch 
| 	and see what it says (and does not say)
| 
| Fix:
| ---
| 
| 	No fix, but some investigation reveals that:
| 
| 	In file defaults.h, one finds
| 	
| 	#ifndef OCTAVE_LOCALSTARTUPFILEDIR
| 	#define OCTAVE_LOCALSTARTUPFILEDIR ""
| 	#endif
| 
| 	while, for a similar variable:	
| 
| 	#ifndef OCTAVE_STARTUPFILEDIR
| 	#define OCTAVE_STARTUPFILEDIR "/usr/adamislocal/share/octave/2.1.71/m/startup"
| 	#endif

Please try the following patch.  You'll need to run configure again
after applying it.

Thanks,

jwe


ChangeLog:

2005-06-02  John W. Eaton  <jwe at octave dot org>

	* Makeconf.in (do-subst-default-vals): Substitute
	${localstartupfiledir}, not ${localstartupfile} (which is undefined).


Index: Makeconf.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/octave/Makeconf.in,v
retrieving revision 1.151.2.2
diff -u -r1.151.2.2 Makeconf.in
--- Makeconf.in	6 May 2005 18:59:40 -0000	1.151.2.2
+++ Makeconf.in	2 Jun 2005 15:32:50 -0000
 at @ -490,7 +490,7 @@
   -e "s;%OCTAVE_LOCALFCNFILEPATH%;\"${localfcnfilepath}\";" \
   -e "s;%OCTAVE_LOCALOCTFILEDIR%;\"${localoctfiledir}\";" \
   -e "s;%OCTAVE_LOCALOCTFILEPATH%;\"${localoctfilepath}\";" \
-  -e "s;%OCTAVE_LOCALSTARTUPFILEDIR%;\"${localstartupfile}\";" \
+  -e "s;%OCTAVE_LOCALSTARTUPFILEDIR%;\"${localstartupfiledir}\";" \
   -e "s;%OCTAVE_LOCALVERARCHLIBDIR%;\"${localverarchlibdir}\";" \
   -e "s;%OCTAVE_LOCALVERFCNFILEDIR%;\"${localverfcnfiledir}\";" \
   -e "s;%OCTAVE_LOCALVEROCTFILEDIR%;\"${localveroctfiledir}\";" \



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