[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50593] version-rcfile: startup error 'startup' undefined near line 31 column 3

[Ernst Reissner]

URL:
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                 Summary: version-rcfile: startup error 'startup' undefined
near line 31 column 3
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: ernstreissner
            Submitted on: Mon 20 Mar 2017 12:54:35 PM UTC
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

When starting octave in /usr/local/share/octave/4.3.0+/m, 
(or according), 
there is a directory startup. 

In file scripts/startup/version-rcfile, we find 

## For Matlab compatibility, run startup.m when starting Octave.
if (exist ("startup", "file"))
  startup;  # No arg list here since startup might be a script.
endif


If we start octave with octave --no-gui -V, i.e. verbose, 
we obtain: error: 'startup' undefined near line 31 column 3

Line31 refers to version-rcfile. 

To avoid this, let us write if (exist ("startup", "file") && ~exist
("startup", "dir")





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