[Gretl-devel] Re: Failed compiling on ubuntu 14.04

On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to compile gretl  on ubuntu 14.04. This worked 4 months > ago without any problem using the following "configure"-options: > > ./configure \ >         --prefix=$HOME/software/gretl \ >         --disable-gnuplot-checks \ >         --disable-gnuplot-3d \ >         --with-odbc --with-ODBC-prefix=${ODBC_DRIVER} > > At some compilation failed, however. The errors I get are: > > <compilation> > ware/gretl/lib\" ../lib/src/dataset.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/dataset.o > ../lib/src/bhhh_max.c: In function ‘bhhh_numeric’: > ../lib/src/bhhh_max.c:37:23: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or > ‘__attribute__’ before ‘Lval’ >      double * restrict Lval = L->val; >                        ^ [...] > > Does anybody have an idea how to deal with it? Are there any > compilation parameters which I could try? Try adding -std=c99 to CFLAGS. Funny, C99 support seems to be the default on Arch and Fedora.