Description of problem: on startup: warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/erfcinv.m shadows a built-in function warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/expint.m shadows a core library function warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/ellipke.m shadows a core library function warning: function /usr/lib64/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v49+/ellipj.oct shadows a built-in function Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm -qa octave* octave-general-1.3.4-1.fc22.x86_64 octave-specfun-1.1.0-9.fc22.x86_64 octave-control-2.6.6-1.fc22.x86_64 octave-3.8.2-18.fc22.x86_64 octave-signal-1.3.0-3.fc22.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install octave and octave-specfun 2. start octave 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: you find bug reports about that on various distributions e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741036 but i found none for fedora.
From John Eaton: This patch seems to take care of it: http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/specfun/rev/153e6946b5cb so the next release of the specfun package should fix this problem. jwe
Still there in fc23 octave-specfun-1.1.0-12.fc23.x86_64 quick fix: sudo rm /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/expint.m /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/ellipke.m /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/erfcinv.m /usr/lib64/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v50+/ellipj.oct
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