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