I can't reproduce this error, but it may have something to do with the
parallel build: perhaps our Makefiles are missing an explicit
dependency ordering.

Could you try doing:

rm -f doc/commands/functex doc/commands/cmdtex

then "make ; make pdfdocs" (without the -j flag).

Allin

That sorted it, and my copy of -gretl- 2017b-git is now running, with PDF viewer successfully switched to xreader. 

My TeXLive 2016 installation log (from one of Purdue's servers last week) shows no package entry for -functex-, so that may have something to do it. Or it may have been, as you suggest, missing some other dependency.

Either way, many grateful thanks for your quick help and for zoning in so quickly on the issue.

C
  
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