[Gretl-users] Gretl request

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:

[ instructions on building CVS gretl ]

> 8. type
> sudo make install

> (this is not very clean because uninstalling the compiled gretl 
> version will be a bit difficult, but when do you really want to 
> uninstall gretl? ;-)

If you're taking the trouble to install gretl from CVS, one 
possibility for making things "cleaner" is to install outside of 
the standard Ubuntu tree.  For example, you can configure with

./configure --prefix=/opt/gretl

then when you do "make install" everything will go under 
/opt/gretl, where you can blow it all away if you wish to.  This 
does mean, however, that you'll have to do a couple of little 
things to make gretl work:

* Either add /opt/gretl/bin to your PATH, or (as root) create a 
symbolic link to gretl

  cd /usr/bin
  ln -s /opt/gretl/bin/gretl .

* Make the gretl dynamic library available: either add 
/opt/gretl/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or (as root), open
/etc/ld.so.conf in a text editor, append the line

/opt/gretl/lib

save the file, then run 

/sbin/ldconfig

Allin Cottrell