On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Allin Cottrell
<cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
Attached is the file that I am preparing to have in gretl CVS root.
What do you think?
Can you check your guide against the material in Appendix C2 of the Gretl User's Guide, please? I don't think zlibc is a gretl dependency. Also, the simple suggestion in the manual seems a good one:
apt-get build-dep gretl
Allin
I did a step-by-step installation of the packages that ./configure reported as necessary. In the search for zlib (with synaptic) the only package that I saw to fit was that one. Since then ./configure stopped complaining, I identified it has the required one. I will double check what are the zlib packages in my system.
I also think that ./configure reported GMP as required. How can we confirm this?
Now, in that README.packages file I will add the reference to Appendix C2. The purpose of the README.packages file, is kind of a shortcut from documentation. A user can see in gretl webpages how to get CVS tree, and then can just copy the commands to get the packages.
Furthermore, I plan to have the commands for OpenSuSe and Fedora/RedHat or any other Linux. This is because sometimes the packages do not have the same names (and packages managers, like "zypper" and "yum").
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Since you actually made me read Appendix C2 (I was not aware that documentation had improved so much since I read it long time ago ;)), here i a typo that I detected:
(...)
apt-get build-dep gretl
will download and install all the necessary packages for building the version of gretl that is currently present in your APT sources. Techincally,
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Thanks,
Hélio