--- a/scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-10-14  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* set/unique.m: Remove check for issparse existence since it is
+	now a built-in function.
+
 2010-10-14  Ben Abbott <bpabbott@mac.com>
 
 	* strings/strjust.m: Clarify that justification  applies to spaces and

--- a/scripts/set/unique.m
+++ b/scripts/set/unique.m
@@ -82,20 +82,14 @@
   ## fast as for full matrices, operate on the nonzero elements of the
   ## sparse array as long as we are not operating on rows.
 
-  ## FIXME -- unique is called when PKG_ADD files are parsed, but
-  ## issparse is not yet available because it is coming from a .oct
-  ## file?!?
-
-  if (exist ("issparse"))
-    if (issparse (x) && ! optrows && nargout <= 1)
-      if (nnz (x) < numel (x)) 
-        y = unique ([0; (full (nonzeros (x)))], varargin{:});
-      else
-        ## Corner case where sparse matrix is actually full
-        y = unique (full (x), varargin{:});
-      endif
-      return;
+  if (issparse (x) && ! optrows && nargout <= 1)
+    if (nnz (x) < numel (x)) 
+      y = unique ([0; (full (nonzeros (x)))], varargin{:});
+    else
+      ## Corner case where sparse matrix is actually full
+      y = unique (full (x), varargin{:});
     endif
+    return;
   endif
 
   if (optrows)

--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2010-10-14  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* sparse.cc: Rename from DLD-FUNCTIONS/sparse.cc.  Include
+	defun.h, not defun-dld.h.
+	(Fissparse, Fsparse, Fspalloc): Use DEFUN, not DEFUN_DLD.
+	* Makefile.am (DIST_SRC): Add sparse.cc to the list.
+	* DLD-FUNCTIONS/module-files: Remove sparse.cc from the list of files.
+
 2010-10-09  Ben Abbott <bpabbott@mac.com>
 
 	* gl-render.cc: Treat images with scalar unique(x/ydata) like Matlab.

--- a/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module-files
+++ b/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module-files
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@
 rcond.cc
 regexp.cc
 schur.cc
-sparse.cc
 spparms.cc
 sqrtm.cc
 strfind.cc

--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -434,6 +434,7 @@
   procstream.cc \
   sighandlers.cc \
   siglist.c \
+  sparse.cc \
   sparse-xdiv.cc \
   sparse-xpow.cc \
   strfns.cc \

rename from src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/sparse.cc
rename to src/sparse.cc
--- a/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/sparse.cc
+++ b/src/sparse.cc
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #include "variables.h"
 #include "utils.h"
 #include "pager.h"
-#include "defun-dld.h"
+#include "defun.h"
 #include "gripes.h"
 #include "quit.h"
 #include "unwind-prot.h"
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 #include "ov-cx-sparse.h"
 #include "ov-bool-sparse.h"
 
-DEFUN_DLD (issparse, args, ,
+DEFUN (issparse, args, ,
   "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
 @deftypefn {Loadable Function} {} issparse (@var{expr})\n\
 Return 1 if the value of the expression @var{expr} is a sparse matrix.\n\
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
      return octave_value (args(0).is_sparse_type ());
 }
 
-DEFUN_DLD (sparse, args, ,
+DEFUN (sparse, args, ,
     "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
 @deftypefn  {Loadable Function} {@var{s} =} sparse (@var{a})\n\
 @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {@var{s} =} sparse (@var{i}, @var{j}, @var{sv}, @var{m}, @var{n}, @var{nzmax})\n\
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
    return retval;
 }
 
-DEFUN_DLD (spalloc, args, ,
+DEFUN (spalloc, args, ,
     "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
 @deftypefn {Loadable Function} {@var{s} =} spalloc (@var{m}, @var{n}, @var{nz})\n\
 Creates a @var{m}-by-@var{n} sparse matrix with pre-allocated space for at\n\