[Gretl-users] cvs version

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Marco Grazzi wrote:

> I am using gretl (compiled from the cvs) on linux-gentoo. 
> When I run gretl I get the following error messages
> 
> $ gretl
> set_lcnumeric: getenv("LANG") gave NULL

This presumably means that the LANG environment variable is not 
set on your system.  You could try, at a command prompt,

  echo $LANG

and see what you get.  I don't think this is a big problem for 
gretl, though it seems unusual.  You'll get gretl in English, with 
'.' as decimal separator.

For reference, on my system I get:

waverley:~/src/build$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

> get_gretl_charset gave (null)

That's OK, it just means you're using UTF-8.

> help file /usr/local/share/gretl/gretlcmd.hlp is not accessible
> help file /usr/local/share/gretl/gretlgui.hlp is not accessible

> Apparently, the help files are not in the repository...

That's right, these two files are auto-generated so they're not in 
the CVS repository (though they are in the release tarball).  To 
build them, add the flag --enable-build-doc when doing 
./configure.

If the "build-doc" requirements are too onerous (XML amd XSL 
stuff), you could grab the .hlp files from the release tarball 
(currently gretl-1.7.4.tar.bz2) and install them in 
PREFIX/share/gretl .

Hope this helps.

Allin Cottrell