[Gretl-devel] what happened to gretl-config?

I am a Linux packager for RPM and DEB based systems and I also teach statistics. I stopped in to your web page to experiment with gretl. I became curious to know why the gretl packages for Ubuntu/Debian are lagging behind the times. The repositories seem stalled at 1.8.1 and I got interested in building an up-to-date deb for gretl-1.8.7. I adapted Dirk Eddelbuettel's debian setup from the gretl-1.8.1 package build, but the package build failed when it got to the installation of a script called gretl-config. In gretl-1.8.1, I find there is a gretl-config that is generated by the configure script and the debian package libgretl1-dev includes it. But in 1.8.7, the configure script no longer generates gretl-config. It is a bit confusing trying to track the changes through gretl-1.8.1 through 1.8.7. The gretl Changelog does not mention it. In 1.8.7, there are still some (vestitgial?) references to gretl-config in Makefile.in and gretl.m4. But no gretl-config.in exists. I compared the RPMs for these versions of gretl and they do include the manpage for gretl-config, but they do not include gretl-config itself(!?!?). Unlike the debian packaging, I don't find a gretl-devel RPM package. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas