yinung at Gmail schrieb: can you give us the ouput of your compilation attempt? usually the problem lies in some missing packages. artur

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&gt;:

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, yinung at Gmail wrote: Ah, --enable-build-doc only works if you are building from the CVS sources. That should be stated in the Manual, but it is indicated by "./configure --help": --enable-build-doc Enable building of gretl docs [CVS only] Allin.