[Gretl-users] Installing version 1.7.9 from source code

[Gordon Hughes]

Sorry - wrong e-mail address!

Is there a difference between the gzip source files for 1.7.9 on 
Sourceforge and the Ricardo ftp server?

I tried to compile the Sourceforge version on a new installation of 
OpenSuse and received an error message in the make phase.  Then I 
tried again using the gzip file downloaded from Ricardo.  There were 
two differences - (a) the configure stage asked for a different 
version of the libxml2 library, and (b) after I dealt with this the 
make stage was successful.  Unfortunately, because of the volume of 
make messages I do not have a record of the error message generated 
by the Sourceforge code.

Finally, for some strange reason my attempts to install the generic 
rpm file on OpenSuse fail because the package manager says that it 
cannot find libblas.so.0 and liblapack.so.0, even though appropriate 
versions of libblas and liblapack are installed with symbolic links 
created for these two library names.  Obviously there is some problem 
in resolving library names.

Gordon