Re: [Gretl-users] Compiling on Ubuntu: libgretl?

On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Matthieu Stigler wrote: > Thanks Ricardo for the answer! > > so should I run this $sudo ldconfig in any folder? I just tried and did not > change it., see: > $ sudo ldconfig > [sudo] password: > $ gretl > /usr/local/bin/gretl_x11: error while loading shared libraries: > libgretl-1.0.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > are you assuming with the ldconfig approach that the "libgretl-1.0.so.4" is > somewhere, just badly linked? I could not even locate it on the folders... > where is it supposed to be? The default result of ./configure is that gretl is installed under /usr/local: the executables in /usr/local/bin and the library in /usr/local/lib (or /usr/local/lib64 in case of a 64-bit build). If there's no libgretl* in /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/lib64 after "make install" then the build must have failed. In that case, please do make clean make > make.log 2>&1 and we can take a look at make.log to see what happened. If the library _did_ get installed OK but is not found by the runtime linker, the standard fix is to run the command Jack suggested, "sudo ldconfig". However, for this to work /usr/local/lib (or /usr/local/lib64) must be among the directories listed in ld.so.conf. Take a look at that file in a text editor and if necessary, append the name of the relevant directory (as root). For example, sudo echo "/usr/local/lib64" >> /etc/ld.so.conf sudo ldconfig Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users