setting a default for non-existent property

[Ben Abbott]

On May 7, 2009, at 6:46 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  7-May-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | hmmm ... new problem :-(
> |
> | hg pull http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave
> | abort: error: nonnumeric port: ''
>
> Is this still happening?  I see the following:
>
>  segfault:899> hg pull
>  pulling from ssh://hg.sv.gnu.org/octave
>  searching for changes
>  no changes found
>
> jwe

yeah, it's still happening for me.

However, I downloaded and imported the changeset and ran "make".

"rundemos plot" worked fine.

Ben