Re: [Gretl-users] Ubuntu Netbook Edition and gretl 9.3
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Giuseppe Vittucci wrote:
I installed gretl 9.3 from the source on my netbook with Ubuntu
Netbook
Edition 10.04, but the program does not start and returns the following
message on the terminal:
/usr/local/bin/gretl_x11: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/bin/gretl_x11:
undefined symbol: set_show_activity_func
gretl 9.3 instead works well on the other pc I have with Ubuntu 10.04.
Any suggestion?
Hmm. set_show_activity_func() is a function that is defined in
lib/src/libset.c, and declared in lib/src/libset.h. It is called
in gui2/gretl.c. Its role is to establish a callback so that
lengthy numerical computations don't appear to make the gretl GUI
"freeze" -- the "show_activity" callback has the effect of
updating the GUI from time to time during such processes.
If set_show_activity_func is being flagged as an undefined symbol,
that seems to imply that libset.c did not get compiled correctly
into an object module within libgretl, or the relevant version of
libgretl did not get installed, or the wrong version of libgretl
is being found by the run-time linker.
Is it possible that the linker is finding some older version of
libgretl instead of the gretl 1.9.3 version?
Allin Cottrell