Re: [Gretl-users] Building gretl from CVS on Linux

Since some time I got the impression that a previously installed version using the package management system collides with a self-compiled version to some extend. [...]

I followed Allin's recommendation to use "./configure --enable-build-doc --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install" after running "rm -f ~/.gretl2rc" (deletes the respective file in my /home folder) as well. The output is: -------------------------------------------------------------- mkdir -p -- /usr/share/gretl/data mkdir: kann Verzeichnis „/usr/share/gretl/data“ nicht anlegen: Die Datei existiert bereits make[1]: *** [installdirs] Fehler 1 make[1]: *** Warte auf noch nicht beendete Prozesse... cp -fp ../share/data/descriptions /usr/share/gretl/data cp -fp ../share/data/gretldata.dtd /usr/share/gretl/data cp -fp ../share/data/plotbars/nber.txt /usr/share/gretl/data/plotbars cp: Zugriff auf „/usr/share/gretl/data/plotbars“: Ist kein Verzeichnis make[1]: *** [install_datafiles] Fehler 1 make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/artur/cvs/gretl/share' make: *** [install] Fehler 2 --------------------------------------------------------------- It cannot open a new folder name "/.../data" since there exists already a FILE just named "data". Even if I rename this file or delete it, the compilation re-builds it and hence the folder named "data" cannot be build again.

Following Riccardo's entry, I ran "sudo ldconfig". For a second the gretl window opens but closes immediately again with the error: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Couldn't read /home/artur/.gretl2rc

Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben) [This refers to a segmentation fault - A.T.]