Re: [Gretl-users] More on building gretl on Linux

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Gordon Hughes wrote: > >> A follow-up to my previous e-mail, based on further >> experimentation on compiling gretl 1.7.5 under both OpenSUSE & >> Ubuntu 8.04. It seems that the only way to get a fully >> functioning version of gretl using the current configuration >> script is to include the option "--prefix=/usr" in the configure >> command. Without that, some files get put in places where gretl >> can't find them. > Which files get lost in this way? Ah, maybe I can guess what's up. I did a dummy "make -n install" after configuring gretl without specifying any --prefix (i.e. allowing this to default to "/usr/local" as per GNU tradition) and recorded the results to a log file. So far as I can tell, in this case gretl does install everything correctly under /usr/local (except that it should respect the gnome installation prefix on the given system, if applicable, and install gnome-specific files under that tree). But probably neither both OpenSUSE nor Ubuntu support use of the /usr/local tree out of the box. That is, I suspect that /usr/local/bin is not in the default PATH and /usr/local/lib is not referenced by ldconfig.