> On 19 Jan 2017, at 22:44, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote: > > This post is a further response to the thread started by Henrique Andrade in > November of last year, in > http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2016-November/012194.html > > I'm afraid that remained unresolved at the time, but I can now report that > I've made several small changes to the gretl configuration and build files > which should make things smoother. More substantially, there's new material at > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/osx-testing/ > > that should be helpful: apparatus to build gretl using just Apple's Xcode > Command Line Tools plus a new "gretl-dev" framework, available as a dmg file. > This method does not require a third-party package manager such as MacPorts > or Homebrew. > > The full story is in gretl-osx-howto.pdf at the above location. This document > also gives a recipe for building gnuplot for use with gretl on MacOS, and > even describes how to build the gretl-dev framework yourself (with the help > of some shell scripts) in case anyone is feeling adventurous. > > Allin Cottrell
Small correction on the gretl-osx-howto: On page 2 of the gretl in the first bullet the statement " • (Note that Apple doesn’t want you to install custom software under /usr.)" is not quite true as of OS X 10.11. As of OX S (macOS) 10.11 it is no longer allowed to install stuff in /usr/bin, /usr/lib etcetera. It's called System Integrity Protection (note; it can be disabled). You can't use sudo to circumvent it. But you can install stuff in /usr/local. I have the gfortran compiler from Francois Coudert installed on Mac OS X 10.11. A "gfortran" is automatically installed in /usr/local/bin as a symlink to the main executable in /usr/local/gfortran/bin. Works without a hitch. I have not yet had any need to disable the System Integrity Protection. Various applications (R, BBEdit, TextMate, Gawk, VirtualBox, TextWrangler etc) install their support stuff in /usr/local/bin. Berend Hasselman
