gretl 2023b coming up
by Cottrell, Allin
My current plan is to release gretl 2023b a week from today (July 18).
So this would be a good time to update translations. Also if people
have sets of test scripts it would be a good time to run them and
report any problems.
Allin Cottrell
2 years, 3 months
misleading error message when loading a package
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
running Artur's fsboost package I first got the following error message:
gretl-Version 2023b-git
Aktuelle Sitzung: 2023-07-12 09:15
Fehler beim Laden von fsboost.gfn # ... general error
Fehler beim Öffnen des Ordners »C:\Users\Sven
Schreiber\Documents\gretl\functions«: No such file or directory
fsboost: Abhängigkeit string_utils nicht gefunden # ... dependency not found
Apart from the fact that "No such file or directory" is untranslated (a
string which probably is coming from the OS or some non-gretl lib), the
whole error goes away when I install the dependency string_utils. So the
last error message is correct and informative, but the one with "No such
... directory" is misleading -- it is factually correct, but the absent
dir doesn't really represent the underlying problem and per se isn't the
showstopper.
thanks
sven
2 years, 3 months
more stuff in .gitignore ?
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
in my copies/clones of the git repo I'm getting a lot of untracked files
which sometimes is a bit annoying. Some of them may have to do with
un-recommended builds in the source tree, but others are perhaps more
pervasive. I'm not too familiar with the git rules for the .gitignore
files: I see there's such a file at the top level, last changed in 2017,
and under addons there is a quite recent .gitgnore file added by Artur.
Could some knowledgeable person amend these files to cover more of the
clutter or noise?
thanks
sven
2 years, 3 months
the "redhat" dir in the source tree
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
a totally non-urgent question: Is the "redhat" directory in the source
still needed? It only seems to contain the gretl.spec.in -- that alone
of course doesn't say that it's unnecessary, but the latest change there
seems to be from 2015.
And looking into that short file, the duplication "comprising comprises"
immediately jumps at the reader, so that makes me wonder whether this is
really used.
thanks
sven
2 years, 3 months
install failure on virtual Ubuntu on Windows/WSL(g)
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I'm facing a problem in ubuntu 22.04 which runs in the Windows Subsystem
for Linux, with support for graphical apps (version 2, WSLg), in Windows 11.
The build runs fine, but at the "sudo make install" stage I'm getting:
xdg-desktop-menu install gretl.desktop --novendor
xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found.
make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: xdg-install] Error 3
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/heyho/gretlgitRW/buildgretl/xdg'
make: *** [Makefile:89: install] Error 1
Note that the standard Ubuntu gretl package runs fine, and with that I
mean the GUI program and all. But before building from a fresh git
checkout, I have un-installed the stock package, using apt.
I guess the problem comes from the fact that in this situation there is
no real Ubuntu desktop area.
Any ideas how to work around this problem? Some switches at the
configure stage?
thanks
sven
2 years, 3 months
