Allin,

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
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/clive/gretl-git/doc/commands'
Makefile:48: recipe for target 'help' failed
make[1]: *** [help] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/clive/gretl-git/share'
Makefile:65: recipe for target 'share' failed
make: *** [share] Error 2

Thoughts?

C



On 24 October 2015 at 19:14, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote:

I'm getting an installation error for the new version of -gretl- and I'm
following Jack's suggested code from a few weeks' back as well.

Ultimately, it's complaining that it cannot find the Makefile:
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `doc/commands/Makefile.in'

 Thanks for the thorough report, Clive. The trouble is here:

clive@clivubu:~/gretl-2015d$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
--enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc

 The thing is that --enable-build-doc is a valid option only when you're building from the git (or CVS, as was) sources. With a
regular release source package such as gretl-2015d.tar.xz the "doc" material is included in its "built" form and there's no facility for building it from scratch.

config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `doc/commands/Makefile.in'

 If you run "./configure --help" one of the messages that zip by is

<quote>
--enable-build-doc      Enable building of gretl docs [git only]
</quote>

However, we should rejig this so that it produces a more informative error message in the case you're describing (release source used, but --enable-build-doc option given).

Allin Cottrell



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