[Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard

[Gordon Hughes]

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.

 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.

Regards

Gordon Hughes

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Professor Gordon Hughes
Department of Economics
University of Edinburgh
50 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JY
United Kingdom

E-mail : G.A.Hughes at ed.ac.uk