hint for building gretl without xdg-desktop stuff
by Sven Schreiber
Hi everybody,
this is just to share the solution to errors I got when building gretl
from source on a fairly minimal Linux distro inside the Windows
Subsystem for Linux (WSL), where no Linux desktop environment stuff was
installed: To avoid the error "xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu
directory found" at the stage of doing 'sudo make install', you just
need to go back to the 'configure' step and add the option
"--disable-xdg". I guess the same solution applies to other minimal
(console-only) Linux installations, not just on the WSL.
I guess you could also install a desktop environment in Linux instead,
but that seems a bit like overkill compared to the alternative.
(Note that I was still able to start the Linux gretl build in the
window-based graphical mode afterwards, not just the console program.
But that is probably a specialty of the WSL integration.)
Perhaps this is or will be useful for somebody out there.
cheers
sven
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