Bug on octave 3.1.51+ with pkg install

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Aug-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| Since there is no reason to wrap the subfunction
| is_architecture_dependent in an identity anonymous function, the
| attached workaround should make the problem vanish (and it is not a
| temporary solution).

I applied the changeset.

| Still, the underlying problem persists, as the subfunction seem to be
| unreachable in an anonymous function. Not always, though: it seems to
| work when pkg.m is copied into local directory. I'll try to submit a
| new bug report for this.

Does anyone have a simpler test case that shows the problem?  That
would help, but either way I'll try to look at this problem sometime
this week.

Thanks,

jwe