I also discovered that Gretl did not play well with X11 running on
Leopard. However, I have found that the solution is to manually start
X11 first and then start Gretl and then everything works fine.
Cheers,
Neil
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Neil Hepburn, Economics Instructor
Social Sciences Department, Augustana Faculty
University of Alberta, Camrose Campus
Phone (780) 679-1588
email nhepburn(a)augustana.ca
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1. Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard (Gordon Hughes)
2. Re: Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard (Sven Schreiber)
From: Gordon Hughes <G.A.Hughes(a)ed.ac.uk>
Date: December 2, 2007 11:30:38 AM MST (CA)
To: gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu
Subject: [Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard
Reply-To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
This is a general warning. I have recently upgraded the version of
OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard). I have found that Gretl
does not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard. Nor
am I able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme
pdf file because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/...
specified. I was able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4
(Tiger) of OS-X without any significant difficulty.
From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of
unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so
that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work
with Leopard until these problems are sorted out. This is not
important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a
Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion. However, for
those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned
upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later) with
a version of X11 that functions properly.
Regards
Gordon Hughes
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Professor Gordon Hughes
Department of Economics
University of Edinburgh
50 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JY
United Kingdom
E-mail : G.A.Hughes(a)ed.ac.uk
From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net>
Date: December 2, 2007 1:22:31 PM MST (CA)
To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard
Reply-To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
Gordon Hughes schrieb:
> This is a general warning. I have recently upgraded the version of
> OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard). I have found that Gretl
> does not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard. Nor
> am I able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme
> pdf file because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/...
> specified. I was able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4
> (Tiger) of OS-X without any significant difficulty.
With 1.6.5 I could not start gretl on OS 10.5.0 by double-clicking,
either. However, I was able to start it by typing ./gretl in the
appropriate place. Could you be more specific why that didn't work
for you or what happened?
>
> From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of
> unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so
> that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work
> with Leopard until these problems are sorted out. This is not
> important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a
> Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion. However, for
> those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned
> upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later)
> with a version of X11 that functions properly.
10.5.1 is out already. And I was able to compile and start (the pre-
release version of) gretl 1.7.0 on OS 10.5 from source as described
on the gretl mac page. (However, it took a while because all the
other fink packages also had to be compiled, because there wasn't a
pre-compiled fink version for 10.5 available yet.)
But I haven't tested the current 1.7.0 dmg, there may very well
remain some problems. All I'm saying is that there don't seem to be
any fundamental problems in using gretl 1.7.0 on os 10.5 (practical
problems notwithstanding).
thanks,
sven
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