On Sat, 24 Oct 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote:
 Corrected -configure- command, plus all the other code, ran as
expected. My
 -gretl- was successfully installed and updated via -git-.
 -make pdfdocs-, however, came back with errors and -make -j3-, as suggested
 by Jack, came back with:
 Output written on gretl-ref.pdf (162 pages, 931768 bytes).
 Transcript written on gretl-ref.log.
 Makefile:103: recipe for target 'gretl-ref.pdf' failed
 make[3]: *** [gretl-ref.pdf] Error 1
 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/clive/gretl-git/doc/tex'
 Makefile:213: recipe for target '../tex/gretl-ref.bbl' failed
 make[2]: *** [../tex/gretl-ref.bbl] Error 2 
It looks as if the bibtex binary might be missing/unavailable. If 
so, this will have knock-on effects on the building of the "online" 
help files...
 make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/clive/gretl-git/doc/commands'
 Makefile:48: recipe for target 'help' failed 
so the next error is not (conditionally) unexpected.
Allin Cottrell