[Gretl-devel] 'include' w/o 'open' -- new behavior

[Sven Schreiber]

Am 22.12.2007 00:46, Sven Schreiber schrieb:
> Am 21.12.2007 23:27, Allin Cottrell schrieb:



>> Do you mean, that if a script references another file given as a plain 
>> (non-dot) relative path, gretl will look for the latter in the same 
>> place the script was found?  If so, this is the case for open/append 
>> and run/include.  For example, if I do
>>
>> gretlcli -b /some/odd/place/foo.inp
>>
>> and foo.inp says "open baz.gdt", then we try looking for baz.gdt in 
>> /some/odd/place.  There's an internal variable "currdir" which is 
>> set/reset each time a script is opened, and this directory is 
>> prepended to the search path.
>>   
> 
> Hm, ok, though my question arises from experiences where I thought that 
> wouldn't work. I'll report it as a bug eventually when I come across 
> something reproducible and clearcut.

Maybe it was a problem with 1.6.5, my co-author had such a problem 
shortly before 1.7.0 was released. But with the current snapshot 
everything seems fine in this respect.

-sven