Allin,

You were right! Running -make pdfdocs- did do the trick. I am now the proud owner of a copy of -gretl- 2015e-git. Thanks for your help and your patience, before it nearly ran out.

Perhaps the final steps that worked could be incorporated into the gretl git basics page:

sudo rm -rf gretl-git
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/gretl/git gretl-git
cd gretl-git
./configure  --enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc
make
make pdfdocs
make pdfdocs # again, if necessary
cli/gretlcli -v
sudo make install
sudo /sbin/ldconfig
gretl &

I don't know if there needs to be a build-dependencies step in there, but at least this will prevent others from going through the rubbish I've just had to go through in order to get the finished product.

Thanks once again to you Allin, Oleh, Helio and Jack for your sterling help.

Yours,
Clive

On 26 October 2015 at 22:14, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote:

Jack,

Thanks for your reply! I was hoping you had the key to this, I really did.
After running:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fonts-extra

and then:

cd gretl-git
make pdfdocs

most of it ran well, until I started running into a blizzard of warnings
and the odd errors, culminating in this:

 The warnings below do not look fatal. Try running "make pdfdocs" again. (I'm not sure where that "rerunfilecheck" business is coming from, but it may be generating an error where there shouldn't be one, hence causing "make" to quit early).

[...]

Package natbib Warning: There were undefined citations.

(./gretl-ref.aux (./cmdref.aux) (./funcref.aux) (./operators.aux)
(./comments.aux) (./optarg.aux) (./reftables.aux) (./biblio.aux))

Package rerunfilecheck Warning: File `gretl-ref.out' has changed.
(rerunfilecheck)                Rerun to get outlines right
(rerunfilecheck)                or use package `bookmark'.


LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.


LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references
right.

)pdfTeX warning (dest): name{func-dolnobs} has been referenced but does
not ex
ist, replaced by a fixed one

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{func-dolpvalue} has been referenced but does
not ex
ist, replaced by a fixed one

 [and so on]

Allin

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