[Gretl-devel] Re: crash with the fsboost package
On Tue, 17 May 2022, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi,
with a Windows snapshot from April I found that the sample script of the
fsboost contributed package produces an error. This was weird because
the sample script of a package is always checked before approving it. So
I updated to the latest Windows snapshot from May 4th, but now gretl
crashes completely when running the same sample script.
I suspect there's nothing wrong with fsboost, and instead the snapshots
after the 2022a release perhaps include some serious bugs leading to
crashes - I'm also thinking of the other recent problem on the mailing
list about saving session icons.
I have no time to debug this properly right now, but I found that the
crash occurs here on linux if the "ridge" package (which is a dependency)
is not installed. After intalling that, the sample script of fsboost runs
just fine.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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