problems with "aoutoload" in 3.1.55

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-May-2009, Carlo de Falco wrote:

| On 20 May 2009, at 21:16, Carlo de Falco wrote:
| 
| > BTW the same example seems to show also a bug in get_help_text:
| >
| > ------------------------------------------------------
| > >> help myfun
| > `myfun' is a function from the file /Users/carlo/Desktop/autoloadbug/ 
| > myfun.m
| >
| > MYFUN: this version of myfun is defined in an m-file
| >
| > >>  [text, format] = get_help_text (myfun)
| > warning: implicit conversion from scalar to string
| > text =
| > format = Not found
| > >>
| > ------------------------------------------------------
| >
| > c.
| 
| Sorry this was just my mistake (I forgot the quotes):
| 
| ----------------------
|  >>  [text, format] = get_help_text ("myfun")
| text = MYFUN: this version of myfun is defined in an oct-file
| 
| format = plain text
|  >>  [text, format] = get_help_text ("myfun")
| text =  MYFUN: this version of myfun is defined in an m-file
| 
| format = plain text
|  >>
| ----------------------
| 
| so get_help_text seems to work as expected
| on the other hand:
| 
| -----------------------
|  >> ls
| PKG_ADD			low_level_functions.cc	low_level_functions.o	 
| low_level_functions.oct	myfun.m
|  >> gen_doc_cache ("DOC_CACHE", canonicalize_file_name("./"))
| warning: gen_doc_cache: unusable help text in  
| 'low_level_functions.oct'. Ignoring function.
| warning: function name `myfun' does not agree with function file name `'
| warning: function name `myfun' does not agree with function file name `'
|  >>
| -----------------------
| 
| the reason I am looking at this is that I get plenty of similar errors  
| if I try to install
| the nurbs package on 3.1.55
| 
| also this might be some mistake on my side somwhere rather than a bug,  
| but I can't see where...

What does

  help low_level_functions

display?  Where is myfun defined?

jwe