Okay, after I do this, successfully:

clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ sudo git clone ssh://stonebridgespur@git.code.sf.net/p/gretl/git gretl-git  
[sudo] password for clive:
Cloning into 'gretl-git'...
Password:
remote: Counting objects: 137418, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (30143/30143), done.
remote: Total 137418 (delta 109830), reused 134008 (delta 106823)
Receiving objects: 100% (137418/137418), 172.73 MiB | 713.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (109830/109830), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

I get this:

clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc
./configure: line 2338: config.log: Permission denied
./configure: line 2348: config.log: Permission denied

Which is why I have to run:

clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc

[...]

Configuration:

  Installation path:                      /usr/local
  Use readline library:                   yes
  Use gnuplot for graphs:                 yes
  Use pdflatex for typesetting:           yes
  Use libgsf for zip/unzip:               no
  MPFR support:                           yes
  sse2 support for RNG:                   yes
  OpenMP support:                         yes
  MPI support:                            no
  AVX support for arithmetic:             yes
  Build with GTK version:                 2.0
  Build gretl documentation:              yes
  Use Lucida fonts:                       no
  Build message catalogs:                 yes
  Build gretl addons:                     no
  X-12-ARIMA support:                     yes
  TRAMO/SEATS support:                    yes
  libR support:                           yes
  ODBC support:                           no
  JSON parsing support:                   yes
  Experimental audio support:             no
  Use xdg-utils in installation:          if DESTDIR not set

  LAPACK libraries:
    -llapack -lblas -lgfortran

Now type 'make' to build gretl.
You can also do 'make pdfdocs' to build the PDF documentation.

And then...

clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ make
./builddate
Can't write to build.h
Makefile:103: recipe for target 'buildstamp' failed
make: *** [buildstamp] Error 1

I hope that makes things clearer.

Clive


On 25 October 2015 at 23:57, Clive Nicholas <clivelists@googlemail.com> wrote:
Allin,

Okay, thanks for your advice. The only thing is is that I've never built -gretl- from -git- as I've never needed to. Remember, I was only following the suggested steps Jack gave me!

Clive

On 25 October 2015 at 23:21, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote:

Allin,

I didn't add it because it still generate errors!

clive@clivubu:~/gretl-2015d$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
--enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc

Clive, we (Oleh and I) are telling you: (a) "make pdfdocs" will not work unless you have given the option --enable-build-doc to the configure script, but (b) the latter option is valid only when you are building from the git source, and not with a regular release source package such as gretl-2015d.tar.xz.

In other words, if you want to build the docs you _must_ use the git source and you _must_ add --enable-build-doc when configuring. In addition you _must not_ invoke "sudo" when doing "git pull" or running the configure script.


Allin




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