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[Doug Stewart]

I have a compiled tip from yesterday  (Ubuntu 10.04) (make test showed 0 errors and  1 known error)

I am working on the help info for bar.m taken from todays tip.

After modifying the info part, I wanted to see the results, so I saved it in the top (octave) folder of my running version and named it bar1.m

It gave me the following message:

octave:3> bar1 (randn (1, 100))

error: `__bar__' undefined near line 98 column 21

error: called from:

error:   /home/doug/octave_dev/compiling/octave/bar1.m at line 98, column 19

I the saved it in the same folder as the original bar.m but saved it as bar2.m.

It now ran without any error.

Why should it's ability to find __bar__.m  be determined by the calling functions location?

Doug Stewart