Re: Problem with Octave-2.9.14

[Rajkiran]

Hi John,

        See the output below. I've downloaded 2.9.14 version source files from
the website. To be sure that I'm running 2.9.14 version, I've tried running the
binary octave-2.9.14 from the command prompt. However, the startup message
prints the version to be 2.1.50 and when I try "which version", again, it is
referring to files installed by the sysadmin on the system. I've seen the source
code and see that OCTAVE_VERSION is built-in variable and I've expected that it
should at least return correct value, but, even it returns 2.1.50.
  Do you think, there was mistake during the installation ?

Thanks,
Rajkiran

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[~/Installs/octave-2.9.14/bin]$ls -l
total 48
lrwxrwxrwx    1 osu4777  G-2934         16 Oct  1 15:20 mkoctfile ->
mkoctfile-2.9.14
-rwxr-xr-x    1 osu4777  G-2934      12933 Oct  1 15:20 mkoctfile-2.9.14
lrwxrwxrwx    1 osu4777  G-2934         13 Oct  1 15:21 octave -> octave-2.9.14
-rwxr-xr-x    1 osu4777  G-2934       7992 Oct  1 15:21 octave-2.9.14
lrwxrwxrwx    1 osu4777  G-2934         17 Oct  1 15:20 octave-bug ->
octave-bug-2.9.14
-rwxr-xr-x    1 osu4777  G-2934      12314 Oct  1 15:20 octave-bug-2.9.14
lrwxrwxrwx    1 osu4777  G-2934         20 Oct  1 15:20 octave-config ->
octave-config-2.9.14
-rwxr-xr-x    1 osu4777  G-2934       5987 Oct  1 15:20 octave-config-2.9.14
[~/Installs/octave-2.9.14/bin]$./octave-2.9.14
GNU Octave, version 2.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 John W. Eaton.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.

octave-2.9.14:1> which version
version is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.50/m/miscellaneous/version.m
octave-2.9.14:2> version
ans = 2.1.50
octave-2.9.14:3> OCTAVE_VERSION
OCTAVE_VERSION = 2.1.50
octave-2.9.14:4>


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On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, John W. Eaton wrote:

> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:59:38 -0400
> From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
> To: Rajkiran <address@hidden>
> Cc: Thomas Weber <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Problem with Octave-2.9.14
>
> On  3-Oct-2007, Rajkiran wrote:
>
> |     I see that it is picking up m-files from another installation
> | on my system. How can I change the path from where it picks octave's
> | m-files ?
>
> It should just work.  If you run what you think is the octave-2.9.14
> binary and version still returns 2.1.50, then you are not running
> 2.9.14.  The fact that the version function returns 2.1.50 should tell
> you that something is screwed up.  What is the output of running ls -l
> in the directory where you think octave 2.9.14 is installed?  Have you
> tried removing 2.1.50?  How did you install 2.9.14?
>
> jwe
>
>

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