On 23 November 2016 at 05:48, cociuba mihai <cociuba@gmail.com> wrote:

When I build Gretl at the
"make pdfdocs"
I have the following error:
##########################
../lib/src/gretl_www.c:24:19: fatal error: build.h: No such file or directory
#include "build.h"
^
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** [gretl_www.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/acer/gretl-git/lib'
make[3]: *** [../../lib/libgretl-1.0.la] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/acer/gretl-git/doc/commands'
make[2]: *** [textables] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/acer/gretl-git/doc/tex'
make[1]: *** [tex] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/acer/gretl-git/doc'
make: *** [pdfdocs] Error 2
###########################

Any idea what may cause this error?

Speaking as somebody who pissed off the entire list last year with my running commentary on a whole litany of -gretl- installation issues via Linux, try this and see if it works, assuming a clean install from scratch:

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

sudo rm -rf gretl-git

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/gretl/git gretl-git

cd gretl-git

sudo apt-get build-dep gretl

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc --disable-json

make -j3

make pdfdocs

cli/gretlcli -v

sudo make install

sudo /sbin/ldconfig

gretl &

It could be that your -make- call before -make pdfdocs- is wrong (possibly because your # value is too high) or you've not got a check at the beginning for any TeX packages not installed. It's really hard to say without seeing your entire installation routine. Also, the option call to disable JSON can be dropped on Ubuntu. I credit Hélio for the construction of part of this code.

I shot a demonstration video in VLC back in August detailing these steps and the virtues of -gretl-, but I've not been able to find an easy

solution to edit out the crap. When I do, I'll post it on YouTube and publicise the link to the list.

Clive Nicholas

"My colleagues in the social sciences talk a great deal about methodology. I prefer to call it style." -- Freeman J. Dyson