reverse of autoload

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, March 31, 2009, at 03:59PM, "Carlo de Falco" <carlo.defalco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>On 31 Mar 2009, at 21:51, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>> Prior to loading the package, was the directory, /Users/carlo/octave/ 
>> combinatorics-1.0.7/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1-api-v32/ , already in  
>> your path?
>
>no.
>
>> Is it in your path after "pkg unload combinatorics"?
>
>no, but it makes no difference as the autoload map uses absolute paths:
>
> >> file_in_path (path, "partint.oct")
>ans = []
> >> {autoload().file}{78}
>ans = /Users/carlo/octave/combinatorics-1.0.7/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1- 
>api-v32/partint.oct
> >> {autoload().function}{78}
>ans = partcnt
> >> which partcnt
>partcnt is the dynamically-linked function from the file
>/Users/carlo/octave/combinatorics-1.0.7/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1-api-v32/ 
>partint.oct
>
>
>> Ben
>
>Thanks,
>c.
>

I should have also asked what version of Octave are you running.

I don' t have the combinatorics pkg on my Mac, but don't see the problem with the image package. I'm running a recent copy of the developer's sources.

Ben