mfiles installed with pkg -auto install are not found

[David Bateman]

Eric Chassande-Mottin wrote:
> mine doesn't. the bug is thus in the script that calls "pkg load auto".
>
> ~$ octave -q
>
> octave:1> pkg list
> Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
> --------------+---------+-----------------------
>       signal  |   1.0.5 | octave/signal-1.0.5
> octave:2> hilbert
> error: `hilbert' undefined near line 2 column 1
>
> octave:2> pkg load auto
>
> octave:3> hilbert
> usage: h = hilbert(f,N,dim);
> error: evaluating if command near line 45, column 3
> error: called from `hilbert' in file `octave/signal-1.0.5/hilbert.m'
>
>   

It appears that debian modifies the octaverc file. Check in

<PREFIX>/share/octave/3.0.0/m/startup/octaverc

mine contains...

## This appears here instead of in the pkg/PKG_ADD file so that --norc
## will also skip automatic loading of packages.

pkg ("load", "auto");


D.

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