[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.