spurious autload warning

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Mar-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| If I do something like "addpath(genpath('./'))" and the sub directories
| of the current directory contain PKG_ADD files with autoload commands
| like discussed previously, (ie. 'autoload ("bar", fullfile (fileparts
| (mfilename ("fullpath")),"foo.oct"));' ), then I get spurious messages like
| 
| warning: autoload: `.//foobar/foo.oct' is not an absolute file name
| 
| Doing instead "addpath(genpath(pwd()))" and it works fine. It seems to
| me that this warning is therefore more of a pain than its worth..

How about the following change?  Then you can use

  warning off Octave:autoload-relative-file-name

in your ~/.octaverc file.

jwe


src/ChangeLog:

2007-03-22  John W. Eaton  <address@hidden>

        * src/parse.y (Fautoload): Use warning_with_id.
 

Index: src/parse.y
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/octave/src/parse.y,v
retrieving revision 1.275
diff -u -u -r1.275 parse.y
--- src/parse.y 2 Mar 2007 22:08:07 -0000       1.275
+++ src/parse.y 22 Mar 2007 18:18:13 -0000
@@ -3568,8 +3568,9 @@
          std::string nm = argv[2];
 
          if (! octave_env::absolute_pathname (nm))
-           warning ("autoload: `%s' is not an absolute file name",
-                    nm.c_str ());
+           warning_with_id ("Octave:autoload-relative-file-name",
+                            "autoload: `%s' is not an absolute file name",
+                            nm.c_str ());
 
          autoload_map[argv[1]] = nm;
        }