Dear Allin
I am not very familiar with Linux. Below is what I tried my best to
following Appendix C
(a mess probably)
yinung@gOS31:~/gretl-1.8.6$ ./configure --enable-build-doc
configuring for gretl 1.8.6 (library version 0.0.56)
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... /bin/bash:
./tools/config.rpath: No such file or directory
done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 98304
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ar... ar
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for shl_load... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... no
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for sin in -lm... yes
checking for fopen in -lc... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking dirent.h usability... yes
checking dirent.h presence... yes
checking for dirent.h... yes
checking fnmatch.h usability... yes
checking fnmatch.h presence... yes
checking for fnmatch.h... yes
checking byteswap.h usability... yes
checking byteswap.h presence... yes
checking for byteswap.h... yes
checking sys/times.h usability... yes
checking sys/times.h presence... yes
checking for sys/times.h... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for long double with more range or precision than double... yes
checking size of int... 4
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking netdb.h usability... yes
checking netdb.h presence... yes
checking for netdb.h... yes
checking sys/socket.h usability... yes
checking sys/socket.h presence... yes
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking for struct sockaddr_in... yes
checking for struct in_addr... yes
checking readline/readline.h usability... yes
checking readline/readline.h presence... yes
checking for readline/readline.h... yes
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... yes
checking for readline in -lreadline... yes
checking for rl_completion_matches in -lreadline... yes
checking for inet_addr in -lc... yes
checking for mmap... yes
checking for gzopen in -lz... yes
checking for GMP - version >= 4.0.1... yes
checking for MPFR - version >= 2.2.0... yes
checking for libgfortran... checking for _gfortran_abort in -lgfortran... no
checking for c_sqrt in -lg2c... yes
checking for LAPACK... yes
checking for dgejsv_ in -llapack... no
checking for gnuplot... yes
checking for PNG support in gnuplot... yes
checking for latex... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for FFTW... yes
checking for GLIB... yes
checking for GTK... yes
checking for GTKPRINT... yes
checking for GTKSOURCEVIEW... no
version 2.0 not found
checking for GTKSOURCEVIEW... no
will use 1.8.5
checking for re_compile_pattern... yes
checking for re_compile_fastmap... yes
checking for re_search... yes
checking for re_match... yes
checking for GDK_PIXBUF... yes
checking for GNOME... no
no
checking for XML... yes
checking for XSLT... yes
checking for RLIB... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating gretl_sh
config.status: creating gretl-config
config.status: creating gretl.pc
config.status: creating gui2/Makefile
config.status: creating gui2/debug
config.status: creating gui2/gtksourceview/Makefile
config.status: creating gnome/Makefile
config.status: creating gnome/gretl.keys
config.status: creating cli/Makefile
config.status: creating cli/debug
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating plugin/Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating share/Makefile
config.status: creating share/bcih/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating extra/Makefile
config.status: creating osx/Makefile
config.status: creating osx/fixlinks.sh
config.status: creating redhat/gretl.spec
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
config.status: executing libtool commands
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating gretl_sh
config.status: creating gretl-config
config.status: creating gretl.pc
config.status: creating gui2/Makefile
config.status: creating gui2/debug
config.status: creating gui2/gtksourceview/Makefile
config.status: creating gnome/Makefile
config.status: creating gnome/gretl.keys
config.status: creating cli/Makefile
config.status: creating cli/debug
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating plugin/Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating share/Makefile
config.status: creating share/bcih/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating extra/Makefile
config.status: creating osx/Makefile
config.status: creating osx/fixlinks.sh
config.status: creating redhat/gretl.spec
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/gretl.sty
config.status: error: cannot find input file: doc/commands/Makefile.in
2010/1/12 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>:
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, yinung at Gmail wrote:
> Does anyone successfully install (or compile) gretl 1.8.6 on ubuntu
> 8.04? I had a hard time to do that. If somebody does, would you please
> instruct me how to do that?
See Appendix C of the Gretl User's Guide.
Allin Cottrell
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