[15444] in Athena Bugs
Re: Matlab search path behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Aug 28 12:52:49 1997
To: wchuang@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 12:52:47 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>What's wrong:
> Matlab v5.0 and v5.1 no longer check for ~/matlab and
> don't add that directory to the MATLABPATH.
>
> Thus my startup.m file never gets run either.
Well, Matlab 5.0 has been obsoleted by 5.1 and is coming off-line; as to 5.1-
it works fine for me... are you bypassing our Perl startup script
/mit/matlab_v5.1/arch/share/bin/wrapper? It contains the lines:
if ( -d '$ENV{"HOME"}/matlab' ) {
$matpath .= '$ENV{"HOME"}/matlab';
}
in subroutine config_matlab_path, which set this...
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing Support Team
Software Acquisition Coordinator
