Jack,

Thanks for your reply! I was hoping you had the key to this, I really did. After running:

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

and then:

cd gretl-git
make pdfdocs

most of it ran well, until I started running into a blizzard of warnings and the odd errors, culminating in this:

[...]

Package natbib Warning: There were undefined citations.

(./gretl-ref.aux (./cmdref.aux) (./funcref.aux) (./operators.aux)
(./comments.aux) (./optarg.aux) (./reftables.aux) (./biblio.aux))

Package rerunfilecheck Warning: File `gretl-ref.out' has changed.
(rerunfilecheck)                Rerun to get outlines right
(rerunfilecheck)                or use package `bookmark'.


LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.


LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references right.

 )pdfTeX warning (dest): name{func-dolnobs} has been referenced but does not ex
ist, replaced by a fixed one

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{func-dolpvalue} has been referenced but does not ex
ist, replaced by a fixed one

</usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx10.pfb></usr/
share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx9.pfb></usr/share/t
exlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb></usr/share/texlive
/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cmextra/cmex9.pfb></usr/share/texlive/t
exmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-d
ist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi5.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fon
ts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi6.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type
1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi7.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/publi
c/amsfonts/cm/cmmi9.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfo
nts/cm/cmr10.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/
cmr6.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr7.pfb
></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr8.pfb></usr/s
hare/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr9.pfb></usr/share/tex
live/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsl10.pfb></usr/share/texlive/t
exmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmss10.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-d
ist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmss12.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fo
nts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmss17.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/ty
pe1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmss8.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/pub
lic/amsfonts/cm/cmsy10.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/am
sfonts/cm/cmsy7.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/
cm/cmti10.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmt
i9.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmtt10.pfb
></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmtt8.pfb></usr/
share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmtt9.pfb>
Output written on gretl-ref.pdf (172 pages, 942022 bytes).
Transcript written on gretl-ref.log.
Makefile:103: recipe for target 'gretl-ref.pdf' failed
make[2]: *** [gretl-ref.pdf] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/clive/gretl-git/doc/tex'
Makefile:11: recipe for target 'tex' failed
make[1]: *** [tex] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/clive/gretl-git/doc'
Makefile:68: recipe for target 'pdfdocs' failed
make: *** [pdfdocs] Error 2


I'm truly sorry if all of you watching on are frustrated and irritated at having had to read all this crap from the past few days and I truly thank you for all the help and time you've devoted to my issues _pro bono_. I just want a resolution and I think I'm getting there!

I'll now proceed to try Helio's solution, as promised.

Ta,
C


On 26 October 2015 at 07:24, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti@univpm.it> wrote:
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote:

Allin,

Thanks for this, but the outcome is weird after -make-. Essentially, after
executing everything (it seems), it throws up an endless loop of LaTeX
errors, which is odd, as I have TeX Live 2015 which works fine for me. I
don't even get to -make pdfdocs-.

Ah, this is not unexpected, and it's mainly the reason why the doc-building part is optional; "make pdfdocs" wil try to build several documents, including the User's Guide, the Command Reference etc, which are pretty hefty and depend on quite a few LaTeX packages.

Therefore, spotting what goes wrong may not be that easy. Usually, it's missing bits in your TeX setup. For example, you'll need packages like appendix.sty and pifont.sty.

If you're using a Debian-derivative distribution, such as Mint or Ubuntu, usually all it takes is installing a few extra packages. "texlive-latex-extra" and "texlive-font-extra" should be sufficient, IIRC.


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  Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)

  Università Politecnica delle Marche
  (formerly known as Università di Ancona)

  r.lucchetti@univpm.it
  http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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