On Sun, 27 Nov 2016, Allin Cottrell wrote:
gretl.desktop is supposed to be generated by the configure script.
It should be in the xdg subdirectory of your build directory.
[...]
Come to think of it, the systematic way to debug a build would be
this:
make clean
./configure <your-options> > build.log
make >> build.log
Then post build.log (off-list, if you like).
Allin