indexed assignment for sparse matrices in ov-2.9.4

[Thomas Kasper]

Hi,

I have a problem with indexed assignment for sparse matrices in
octave-2.9.4. See below for an example:

octave:1> version
ans = 2.9.4
octave:2> a = sparse(eye(3))
a =

Compressed Column Sparse (rows = 3, cols = 3, nnz = 3)

  (1, 1) -> 1
  (2, 2) -> 1
  (3, 3) -> 1

octave:3> a(:,[3,2,1]) = a
a =

Compressed Column Sparse (rows = 3, cols = 3, nnz = 3)

  (1, 1) -> 1
  (2, 2) -> 1
  (3, 3) -> 1

octave:4>

My understanding is that the command in line 3 should permute the columns of
"a". In fact this is what I get for "a" being a dense matrix, so I think it
might be a bug.
As part of the sparse-functionality seems to depend on external libraries,
I installed UMFPACK, COLAMD and CCOLAMD, but to no avail; I keep getting the
same result.

Am I missing a patch, or is there still some unresolved dependency? Normally
I would have my package manager take care of all this, but as he obstinately
refused to download - let alone install - a version qualified as testing or
unstable, I had to do it on my own. 

For configuration details see below

Any help is appreciated. Thank you a lot
Thomas Kasper

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