[Gretl-devel] hint for building gretl without xdg-desktop stuff

Hi everybody, this is just to share the solution to errors I got when building gretl from source on a fairly minimal Linux distro inside the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), where no Linux desktop environment stuff was installed: To avoid the error "xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found" at the stage of doing 'sudo make install', you just need to go back to the 'configure' step and add the option "--disable-xdg". I guess the same solution applies to other minimal (console-only) Linux installations, not just on the WSL. I guess you could also install a desktop environment in Linux instead, but that seems a bit like overkill compared to the alternative. (Note that I was still able to start the Linux gretl build in the window-based graphical mode afterwards, not just the console program. But that is probably a specialty of the WSL integration.) Perhaps this is or will be useful for somebody out there. cheers sven