Re: [Gretl-devel] make error
On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
For some time now I'm getting this error when installing gretl
from source,
although it seems not to affect significantly:
(traslated from spanish)
make [1]: *** No rule to build the object "gretl.desktop" needed for
"xdg-install". Stop.
OK, I see what's going on there. The gretl.desktop file gets created
by running the configure script (rather than by running "make").
However, it gets removed by "make clean".
So the workaround is to re-run configure after doing "make clean". The
correct fix is that gretl.desktop should not be deleted by "make
clean", but only be a heavier-duty clean-up target such as "make
distclean". I'll see to that shortly.
Allin