[Gretl-users] Linux versions of gretl

[Angelo Secchi]

Hi,

On Mon, 28 May 2007 09:45:08 -0400 (EDT)
Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 May 2007, Gordon Hughes wrote:
> 
> > As a newcomer, I apologise if this e-mail raises an issue that 
> > has been settled in the past.  My query or suggestion concerns 
> > the possibility of providing a statically linked version of 
> > gretl for Linux.  [The Windows & Mac versions are necessarily 
> > statically linked because it cannot be assumed that users have 
> > the necessary dlls.] The query is prompted by two 
> > considerations...
> 
> In fact, the Windows and Mac versions are not statically linked -- 
> what happens is that the gretl binaries are distributed in a big 
> package that includes all the necessary shared libraries (or at 
> least, all the libraries that are in any way non-standard).  
> 
> I have thought about trying to do this for Linux too, but I think 
> a better way would be to make a determined effort to overcome the 
> remaining problems with certain libraries, in particular 
> lapack/blas and libpng.  I've heard of several people having 
> problems with undefined symbols relating to the fortran library
> when linking to lapack.  I'm also aware of issues with libpng (a 
> very useful library which is unfortunately a horrid mess in regard 
> to its versioning).  It _should_ be possible to work around these 
> things.  (Though I'm not ruling out the other approach if it's 
> really needed.)
> 
> > Even popular distributions such as Ubuntu and SimplyMEPIS have 
> > libraries that are not compatible with the most recent versions 
> > of gretl...
> 
> Hmm, I've been able to build gretl on Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 without 
> doing anything fancy (just installing the runtime and devel 
> packages for everything that's needed).  

just to add a bit of info. In Gentoo no problem in installing Gretl.


> 
> > B.  Just yesterday, I encountered a different version of the 
> > same problem.  I have decided to use Suse Linux for my main 
> > systems - in particular Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 
> > (SLED) which is generally compatible with OpenSuse 10.1 & 10.2.  
> > I tried to install gretl 1.6.5 and failed because it could not 
> > resolve the dependency for libpng12.so.0 (a PNG graphics 
> > library). 
> 
> Do you mean you tried building gretl, or using the rpm from the 
> gretl website?  
> 
> Allin.
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