On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote:
 Am 13.01.20 um 19:51 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've compiled gretl using latest git version on an otherwise clean ubuntu 
>> 19.10 system. Gretl works fine for most stuff I am doing there. However, 
>> the "pca" command fails, and I guess there is some package dependency 
>> which I am not fulfilling and which is not required for compiling gretl.
>> 
>> <output>
>> /usr/local/lib/gretl-gtk2/pca.so: cannot open shared object file: No such 
>> file or directory
> 
> So the pca plugin was not built. It includes a GUI element and calls a 
> LAPACK function so it depends on both GTK_LIBS and LAPACK_LIBS as well as 
> libgretl -- but it's not alone in that respect, the same goes for the 
> leverage plugin. And GTK_LIBS is required for the gretl GUI program, and 
> LAPACK_LIBS for libgretl, so there's no real "extra" dependency.
> 
> I suggest doing "make" in the plugin directory with "quiet_build"
turned 
> off (if you have it on via configure), and seeing what goes on. 
> (quiet_build is set to "yes" or "no" on line 19 of
plugin/Makefile.)
> 
 Thanks Allin. After installing the following packages, all went through fine:
 libgtk-3-dev, libgtksourceview-3.0-dev 
Ah, glad to hear it. Most of the gretl plugins have no graphical 
interface elements but a few of them, including pca, do.
Allin