# HG changeset patch
# User Rik <rik@octave.org>
# Date 1363297649 25200
# Node ID c8e1b0213e34870deb3d5701ccf480c963db3a58
# Parent  085976d9ef08f24507f926a3133aca7890714529
pkg.m: Fix str-to-num warnings (bug #37785)

* scripts/general/postpad.m: Use indexing rather than multiplication
to expand constant value.

* scripts/pkg/pkg.m: Use isbool rather than '== -1' to avoid coercing
a string to a number.

diff -r 085976d9ef08 -r c8e1b0213e34 scripts/general/postpad.m
--- a/scripts/general/postpad.m	Thu Mar 14 10:25:23 2013 -0700
+++ b/scripts/general/postpad.m	Thu Mar 14 14:47:29 2013 -0700
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     y = x(idx{:});
   else
     sz (dim) = l - d;
-    y = cat (dim, x, c * ones (sz));
+    y = cat (dim, x, c(ones (sz)));
   endif
 
 endfunction
diff -r 085976d9ef08 -r c8e1b0213e34 scripts/pkg/pkg.m
--- a/scripts/pkg/pkg.m	Thu Mar 14 10:25:23 2013 -0700
+++ b/scripts/pkg/pkg.m	Thu Mar 14 14:47:29 2013 -0700
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
 function [local_packages, global_packages] = pkg (varargin)
   ## Installation prefix (FIXME: what should these be on windows?)
   persistent user_prefix = false;
-  persistent prefix = -1;
+  persistent prefix = false;
   persistent archprefix = -1;
   persistent local_list = tilde_expand (fullfile ("~", ".octave_packages"));
   persistent global_list = fullfile (OCTAVE_HOME (), "share", "octave",
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
   ## FIXME: is it OK to set this always true on windows?
   global_install = ((ispc () && ! isunix ()) || (geteuid () == 0));
 
-  if (prefix == -1)
+  if (isbool (prefix))
     if (global_install)
       prefix = fullfile (OCTAVE_HOME (), "share", "octave", "packages");
       archprefix = fullfile (octave_config_info ("libdir"),