[Gretl-devel] Re: crash with the fsboost package

Am 17.05.2022 um 17:21 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On Tue, 17 May 2022, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> with a Windows snapshot from April I found that the sample script of the >> fsboost contributed package produces an error. This was weird because >> the sample script of a package is always checked before approving it. So >> I updated to the latest Windows snapshot from May 4th, but now gretl >> crashes completely when running the same sample script. >> >> I suspect there's nothing wrong with fsboost, and instead the snapshots >> after the 2022a release perhaps include some serious bugs leading to >> crashes - I'm also thinking of the other recent problem on the mailing >> list about saving session icons. > > I have no time to debug this properly right now, but I found that the > crash occurs here on linux if the "ridge" package (which is a > dependency) is not installed. After intalling that, the sample script > of fsboost runs just fine. Thanks, Jack, interesting. But here I do have ridge installed. But it seems to confirm that the problem is not with fsboost.