On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 2:44 PM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
 Am 16.04.2024 um 20:40 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
 On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 5:27 PM Sven Schreiber
 <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
 could it be that gretl chokes a little when in the .spec file of a
 function package the public functions are separated by more than one space?
 Working on the SVEC_GUI package, I see there was (has been forever?) a
 double blank in the line:
 public = GUI_SVEC GUI_plot_SVEC # line already fixed now
 When using gretlcli.exe (on Windows, obviously) to build the package, I
 don't get an error message, but I don't get the message "validated
 successfully" either, and the resulting gfn file appears to be broken.
 I tried replicating this on both Linux and Windows -- injecting extra
 spaces at all points in the spec file line -- and could not trigger a
 problem.
 Hm, weird. But thanks for testing! 
Just a thought: if the extra 'space' was actually some other
character, such as non-breaking space, that could mess up the parsing.
Allin