[Gretl-devel] install error in OS X 10.8

When I installed gretl 1.9.9 into OS X 10.8 as described below the gretl application icon appears grayed out under and will not execute, giving the error message "…it is not supported on this type of Mac." There was no previous installation of gretl on this drive/OS. However, the icon appears normal and gretl will execute normally when double-clicked directly from the disk image. Is this a conflict related to OS X 10.8? As shown below there are some instances of files within the gretl.app package not writing to my /Applications directory (of which I am admin and owner). I followed these steps: 1. Installed XQuartz 2.7.2 (X11) 2. Dragged GTK+.framework folder from disk image into /Library/Frameworks 3. Dragged gretl.app from gretl-1.9.9-intel.dmg into /Applications 4. Following Trouble-shooting instructions in gretl ReadMe, opened an xterm window and cd /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin/, then ./gretl. 5. Noted the error output: dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/../lib/libgmp.3.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gretl_x11 Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../lib/libgmp.3.dylib: file too short /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../lib/libgmp.3.dylib: file too short Trace/BPT trap: 5 I see that a similar error message has appeared under OS X previously (http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2009-April/003220.html). When I checked the contents of the gretl.app packages, though, I noticed that the contents of the /Applications version differed from the disk image. For example, some of the dynamic libraries, such as those referenced in the error message above, appear as zero bytes file size on the hard drive. Please see output below. Hard drive ---------------- Gvoz$ cd /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/lib Gvoz$ ls -l total 6848 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 Gvoz admin 102 Jun 1 23:04 X11 drwxr-xr-x@ 42 Gvoz admin 1428 Jun 1 23:04 gretl-gtk2 -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz admin 1109460 Jun 1 23:04 libfftw3.3.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz admin 0 Jun 1 23:04 libgmp.3.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz admin 1958552 Jun 1 23:04 libgretl-1.0.4.dylib lrwxrwxrwx 1 Gvoz admin 20 Jun 1 23:04 libgretl-1.0.dylib -> libgretl-1.0.4.dylib lrwxrwxrwx 1 Gvoz admin 18 Jun 1 23:04 libgretl.dylib -> libgretl-1.0.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz admin 419140 Jun 1 23:04 libgtksourceview-2.0.0.dylib lrwxrwxrwx 1 Gvoz admin 28 Jun 1 23:04 libgtksourceview-2.0.dylib -> libgtksourceview-2.0.0.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz admin 0 Jun 1 23:04 libmpfr.1.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz admin 0 Jun 1 23:04 libreadline.5.2.dylib Disk image ---------------- Gvoz$ cd /Volumes/gretl/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/lib Gvoz$ ls -l total 9584 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 Gvoz staff 102 Jun 1 23:04 X11 drwxr-xr-x@ 42 Gvoz staff 1428 Jun 1 23:04 gretl-gtk2 -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz staff 1109460 Jun 1 23:04 libfftw3.3.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz staff 221840 Jun 1 23:04 libgmp.3.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz staff 1958552 Jun 1 23:04 libgretl-1.0.4.dylib lrwxrwxrwx 1 Gvoz staff 20 Jun 1 23:04 libgretl-1.0.dylib -> libgretl-1.0.4.dylib lrwxrwxrwx 1 Gvoz staff 18 Jun 1 23:04 libgretl.dylib -> libgretl-1.0.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz staff 419140 Jun 1 23:04 libgtksourceview-2.0.0.dylib lrwxrwxrwx@ 1 Gvoz staff 28 Jun 1 23:04 libgtksourceview-2.0.dylib -> libgtksourceview-2.0.0.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz staff 205448 Jun 1 23:04 libmpfr.1.dylib -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Gvoz staff 963636 Jun 1 23:04 libreadline.5.2.dylib Thanks and regards, Rob Gvozden