Message: 9 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:22:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] can't start self-compiled gretl To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0808061911570.8330(a)ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu&gt; Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, artur wrote: > Allin: I just sent you the make.log and install.log file. These log files seem to show that "make" and "make install" went fine. One of the few remaining explanations for your problem is that libraries in /usr/local/lib are not known to the run-time linker. Please try these experiments (at a command prompt): First, ldd /usr/local/bin/gretl_x_11 On the basis of what you have reported, I would expect to see a line saying something like libgretl-1.0.so.0 => not found Then try LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ldd /usr/local/bin/gretl_x_11 Based on your install.log, I would expect that to work OK (that is, no "not found" line). If I'm right so far, try LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/gretl_x_11 Does gretl start OK? If not, I'm flummoxed. If so, make your good fortune permanent by doing: sudo sh -c "echo /usr/local/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf && ldconfig" That is, add /usr/local/lib to the path that the run-time linker expects to use, and update the linker's cache. Allin.