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

[Max Pyziur]

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> 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.

Much thanks for your reply.

I have an Fedora Core 2 machine which I use as a home server. Your latest 
rpm build of gretl does install on that machine. However, I still can't 
build it on that machine.

I have installed gretl-1.7.4-1gtk2.i586.rpm on my Core 2 using the 
--nodeps flag. As yet, I haven't tried using it, other than bringing up 
the initial interface.

I have tried setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable both on the FC2 as 
well as the FC8 machine in the hopes of getting gretl to build. No luck.

Any further guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com