I hate these shiny undocumented features
30 septembre 2014
Did you know Matlab read and execute the startup.m file located in your
MATLAB_HOME directory ?
Yes of course.
But you didn't know he was executing
it when you try to compile from outside a matlab environement
(= from OS command line) !
Of course, the only doc you (I) can find about it is lost somewhere in the mess of the forums.
P.S. Don't say it's linked to closed source apps, I know some free/open/not-closed source apps having this same behaviour...