On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, Johannes Lips wrote:
 On 12/01/2022 20:45, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, Johannes Lips wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> when trying to replicate the issue Sven faced in another thread. I came 
>> across
>> the issue that currently the shipped addons are not built and installed in
>> fedora.
>> I am using the gretl spec file, which can be found at [1].
>> I tried adding
>> %configure	--disable-static \
>> 		--disable-avx \
>> 	--with-mpi \
>> 	--with-dbnomics \
>> 	--with-extra \
>> 	--with-geoplot \
>> 	--with-gig \
>> 	--with-ivpanel \
>> 	--with-SVAR
>> the addons to the configure command, but no luck. Could you please tell me 
>> how
>> to build and install these addons?
> 
> Johannes, the addons get built if you pass --enable-build-addons.
> 
> I should explain: we didn't make that the default because the build
> requires quite a full TeX setup. The idea is that if the addons are
> not included in a gretl package for Linux, they should get downloaded
> from sourceforge on demand.
 Ok, but then something else might be broken, because I couldn't install the 
 dbnomics function package from gretl.
 When accessing File - Databases - DB.NOMICS I get the error message in the 
 terminal:
 load function package: failed on 
 /usr/share/gretl/functions/dbnomics/dbnomics.gfn 
OK, we need to investigate that -- accessing that menu item ought to 
cause gretl to download the dbnomics addon from sourceforge, if it's 
not already installed.
 But I couldn't install the dbnomics function package from File -
 Function package - On server, because it's not present in the 
 list. 
That's expected, because dbnomics isn't a contributed package, it's 
an "official" addon. Could you see what happens if you try under 
/Help/Check for addons ? (Though that shouldn't be necessary.)
 Not sure what's missing or wrong here, but that's why I
thought I should 
 compile them for installing them from the beginning. 
If TeX isn't a blocker, that would be good. But we need to see 
what's going wrong with the other pathway (when the addons are not 
buit into the gretl-for-Linux package).
Allin