[Gretl-users] Re: Gretl on OS X Leopard

Send Gretl-users mailing list submissions to gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to gretl-users-request(a)lists.wfu.edu You can reach the person managing the list at gretl-users-owner(a)lists.wfu.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Gretl-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard (Gordon Hughes) 2. Re: Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard (Sven Schreiber) From: Gordon Hughes <G.A.Hughes(a)ed.ac.uk&gt; Date: December 2, 2007 11:30:38 AM MST (CA) To: gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu Subject: [Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard Reply-To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; This is a general warning. I have recently upgraded the version of OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard). I have found that Gretl does not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard. Nor am I able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme pdf file because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/... specified. I was able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4 (Tiger) of OS-X without any significant difficulty. From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work with Leopard until these problems are sorted out. This is not important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion. However, for those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later) with a version of X11 that functions properly. Regards Gordon Hughes =================== Professor Gordon Hughes Department of Economics University of Edinburgh 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JY United Kingdom E-mail : G.A.Hughes(a)ed.ac.uk From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; Date: December 2, 2007 1:22:31 PM MST (CA) To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard Reply-To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Gordon Hughes schrieb: > This is a general warning. I have recently upgraded the version of > OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard). I have found that Gretl > does not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard. Nor > am I able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme > pdf file because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/... > specified. I was able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4 > (Tiger) of OS-X without any significant difficulty. With 1.6.5 I could not start gretl on OS 10.5.0 by double-clicking, either. However, I was able to start it by typing ./gretl in the appropriate place. Could you be more specific why that didn't work for you or what happened? > > From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of > unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so > that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work > with Leopard until these problems are sorted out. This is not > important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a > Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion. However, for > those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned > upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later) > with a version of X11 that functions properly. 10.5.1 is out already. And I was able to compile and start (the pre- release version of) gretl 1.7.0 on OS 10.5 from source as described on the gretl mac page. (However, it took a while because all the other fink packages also had to be compiled, because there wasn't a pre-compiled fink version for 10.5 available yet.) But I haven't tested the current 1.7.0 dmg, there may very well remain some problems. All I'm saying is that there don't seem to be any fundamental problems in using gretl 1.7.0 on os 10.5 (practical problems notwithstanding). thanks, sven _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users