I do most of my work in Windows XP but have always done some of it in
Linux. My main system is a dual boot with Fedora 8 and Windows XP.
Fedora 8 was my choice because it supported my wireless card (I have
had to reverse Fedora kernel updates to keep my Wireless network
working but that is another matter).
I installed Gretl 1.7.1 from cvs following the steps in the manual
and it installed and ran perfectly. The alternative rpm would not
install - I think it was looking for an older version of one of the
required libraries. I presumed that it was something wrong with my set
up and when the alternative worked I did not examine the matter any
more. I would now like to upgrade but have not been able to do so.
I try
cvs -update -d -P
and get a lot of output telling me what is being updated.
the output of
./configure --enable build-doc
is in the attached file
which produces something like the output on page 206 of the current manual.
However when I try to run I get the following (logging on as root and
repeating the entire sequence produces an identical result).
[frainj@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost frainj]# cd cvs/gretl/
[root@localhost gretl]# make
make -C lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/frainj/cvs/gretl/lib'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/src/f2c.h', needed by
`gmm.lo'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/frainj/cvs/gretl/lib'
make: *** [lib] Error 2
[root@localhost gretl]#
[root@localhost gretl]#
Am I missing something simple. I am using the same Fedora 8 as when I
originally installed Gretl apart from the 'security' upgrades offered
by Fedora. As far as I know I have not uninstalled any software.
Please excuse my lack of knowledge of Linux. As far as I can make out
I have installed all the dev packages mentioned on page 204 of the
manual.
Best Regards
John Frain
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John C Frain
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
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