[Gretl-devel] Problems building and installing on Fedora 8

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Max Pyziur wrote:

> I've been trying to get gretl running on my Fedora 8 Core 2 machine.
> 
> The pre-compile rpm fails with:
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libreadline.so.4 is needed by gretl-1.7.4-1gtk2.i586

The only RHEL system I have available to me, for building the 
gretl rpm, is a fairly conservative one that uses readline 4.0.  
On Fedora 8, my recommendation would be to ignore the rpm and 
build from the current CVS source.  

http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=36234

Allin Cottrell.