Re: octave-4.0.1 strange echo

[Keith Keith]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Marco Atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:

I just built from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.0.1.tar.xz

plus adapted two 2 patches
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/8e5eca2c5a64
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/2ee20a290d61

and now i see a copy of
/usr/share/octave/4.0.1/m/startup/__finish__.m
any time I require a "echo on" and exit.


$ octave-cli --eval "echo on"
+ ## Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Ben Abbott
+ ##
+ ## This file is part of Octave.
+ ##
+ ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
....
+ ## No test needed for internal helper m-file.
+ ##!assert (1)
+ endscript;


I doubt it is a an effect of the two patches, but could anyone
check on a clean octave-4.0.1 build ?

Thanks in advance
Marco

I get the same output on a fresh install.  I don't know whether it is the desired output or not, but that's what I got.

-Keith