Just in case you were wondering: I'm still interested in getting
gretl 1.9.6 out as soon as reasonably possible, but I'm concerned
about the report I mentioned on the users list about a crash
(segfault) on start-up, on OS X 10.7 (Lion).
We've had one report of gretl running OK on Lion, but that doesn't
set my mind fully at ease. Gretl does a lot at start-up these days,
and I'm trying to make sure those actions are bullet-proof.
It's possible that the gretl installation is messed up in the case
where it's crashing at start-up, but unless the mess-up involves
something like linking against an incompatible library version
(totally screwed, no hope of recovery) the response should be an
error message and a maybe a voluntary shutdown rather than a
segmentation fault enforced by the OS.
So I'd really like to figure this problem out before releasing.
Allin