[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59039] test failure with pathdef.m on Windows 10

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #59039 (project octave):

To debug this, could you modify pathdef.m and put a line


keyboard;


at the top of this BIST test and then run


test pathdef


You will get thrown to the Octave prompt and then you can use "dbnext" to step
through the code.  I notice that we don't check the return code for "mkdir". 
It is possible that there is a permissions issue that prevents you making a
directory in the system-wide TMP folder and that once this command fails the
rest of the test is destined to fail.

Another possibility is that the directory separation character is different
between tempname() and addpath.  For example,


addpath ('c:/tmp')


may get turned in to the canonical 'c:\tmp' in the listing from path() and so
strfind fails.

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