I've just migrated to Linux Mint 17.3 MATE 64-bit from Kubuntu 15.10 in the last few hours (please don't ask why) and have attempted to install -gretl- from git. Installing R and TeX was successful, but not -gretl-. Here's the output: clive@climate ~ $ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/gretl/git gretl-git Cloning into 'gretl-git'... remote: Counting objects: 138600, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (31321/31321), done. remote: Total 138600 (delta 111286), reused 133438 (delta 106823) Receiving objects: 100% (138600/138600), 164.79 MiB | 578.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (111286/111286), done. Checking connectivity... done. clive@climate ~ $ cd gretl-git clive@climate ~/gretl-git $ ./configure --enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc configuring for gretl 2015e-git (library version 15.0.0) checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no 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 for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed 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... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-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... 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 2015e-git 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 how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... (cached) /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... 1572864 checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop 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 dlltool... no checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n checking for ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for gawk... gawk checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for a working dd... /bin/dd checking how to truncate binary pipes... /bin/dd bs=4096 count=1 checking for mt... mt checking if mt is a manifest tool... no 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 -m elf_x86_64) 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 stdint.h... (cached) 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 fenv.h usability... yes checking fenv.h presence... yes checking for fenv.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 libproc.h usability... no checking libproc.h presence... no checking for libproc.h... no checking sys/proc_info.h usability... no checking sys/proc_info.h presence... no checking for sys/proc_info.h... no checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for long double with more range or precision than double... yes checking for vasprintf... yes checking for posix_memalign... yes checking size of int... 4 checking return type of signal handlers... void checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking whether to use SSE2... yes checking whether to use AVX... yes checking whether to use OpenMP... yes checking immintrin.h usability... yes checking immintrin.h presence... yes checking for immintrin.h... yes checking for mpicc... 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 xdg-mime... yes checking for mmap... yes checking for gzopen in -lz... yes checking for GMP - version >= 4.0.1... no *** Could not run GNU MP test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GNU MP was incorrectly installed *** or that you have moved GNU MP since it was installed. checking for MPFR - version >= 2.2.0... no *** Could not run MPFR test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means MPFR was incorrectly installed *** or that you have moved MPFR since it was installed. checking for libgfortran... checking for _gfortran_abort in -lgfortran... yes checking for LAPACK... yes checking for dgejsv_ in -llapack... yes checking for gnuplot... no checking for gnuplot >= 4.6.0 with cairo support... no * gretl needs gnuplot >= 4.6.0, with cairo support. * The current version of gnuplot is available from www.gnuplot.info clive@climate ~/gretl-git $ make -j3 make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. This ran beautifully (eventually) in Kubuntu 15, so why the choking on gnuplot? I've never before had to physically download it from online before firing up the commands to build, configure, make and install -gretl-, either via CVS or git. I can't use -(sudo) apt-get build-dep gretl- before the call to -configure-, can I? I can't see any other solution. Thoughts? -- Clive Nicholas "My colleagues in the social sciences talk a great deal about methodology. I prefer to call it style." -- Freeman J. Dyson