Hi,

I am also having some difficulties in building Ubunto/Debian packages. Do you know the OpenSuSE Build Service (OBS)? I have it configured to some RPM based distros, but failed for .deb. The system can be configured to build from the gretl site, so it would be kept up to date. Could you consider to share your efforts in OBS?

Thanks,
Helio Guilherme

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@gmail.com> wrote:
I am a Linux packager for RPM and DEB based systems and I also teach
statistics. I stopped in to your web page to experiment with gretl.

I became curious to know why the gretl packages for Ubuntu/Debian are
lagging behind the times. The repositories seem stalled at 1.8.1 and I
got interested in building an up-to-date deb for gretl-1.8.7.  I
adapted Dirk Eddelbuettel's debian setup from the gretl-1.8.1 package
build, but the package build failed when it got to the installation of
a script called gretl-config.  In gretl-1.8.1, I find there is a
gretl-config that is generated by the configure script and the debian
package libgretl1-dev includes it.  But in 1.8.7, the configure script
no longer generates gretl-config.

It is a bit confusing trying to track the changes through gretl-1.8.1
through 1.8.7. The gretl Changelog does not mention it.   In 1.8.7,
there are still some (vestitgial?) references to gretl-config in
Makefile.in and gretl.m4.  But no gretl-config.in exists.

I compared the RPMs for these versions of gretl and they do include
the manpage for gretl-config, but they do not include gretl-config
itself(!?!?).  Unlike the debian packaging, I don't find a gretl-devel
RPM package.

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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
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