P.S. Of course, I did use the Gap.app menu item  "Install GAP Command for 
Shell”.

And /usr/local/bin _is_ on my PATH.

> On 9 Dec2020, at 11:06 AM, Murray Eisenberg <mur...@math.umass.edu> wrote:
> 
> I removed the folder where I had installed gap (in ~/Downloads) and installed 
> your pre-built copy Gapdotapp+GAP.
> 
> However, when I open Terminal and execute command 
> 
>       gap
> 
> nothing seems to happen.
> 
> What’s wrong?
> 
>> On 9 Dec2020, at 2:28 AM, Russ Woodroofe <r...@cornell.edu 
>> <mailto:r...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Murray,
>> Different underlying causes.  Guava I understand has not been updated for 
>> some time, and is fragile with modern compilers and libraries.  Xgap 
>> requires X11 libraries.  CddInterface and NormalizInterface seem (to me) to 
>> be tricky to build, with quite a few requirements etc.  Not sure offhand 
>> about anupq or semigroups.
>> 
>> Are you likely to need any of the given packages?  If not, I wouldn't worry 
>> about it.
>> 
>> You might also be interested in my distribution/frontend Gap.app, which 
>> includes a pre-built copy of GAP 4.11.0, along with most of the packages, 
>> including semigroups, guava, and anupq.  (The included copy doesn't yet run 
>> on M1-based machines, however.)  See
>> https://cocoagap.sourceforge.io/ <https://cocoagap.sourceforge.io/>
>> 
>> But it sounds like you already have managed a functioning GAP installation, 
>> if you're down to building packages.
>> Best,
>> 
>>  --Russ
>> 
>>> On 9 Dec 2020, at 02:52, Murray Eisenberg <mur...@math.umass.edu 
>>> <mailto:mur...@math.umass.edu>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I’m trying to get GAP 4.11.0 installed uner macOS Catalina 10.15.7 but am 
>>> getting several packages seeming to complete their configuration OK but 
>>> then failing to build:
>>> 
>>> CddInterface-2020.01.01
>>> xgap-4.30
>>> semigroups-3.2.3
>>> NormalizInterface-1.1.0
>>> guava-3.15
>>> anupq-3.2.1
>>> 
>>> The errors seem to be for different reasons among the various packages. 
>>> 
>>> Is there some systematic, common problem here, rather than different 
>>> underlying causes for the different packages?
>>> 
>>> Examples of the build errors:
>>> 
>>> CddInterface-2020.01.01
>>> 
>>>       CC       src/CddInterface_la-CddInterface.lo
>>>     src/CddInterface.c:7:10: fatal error: setoper.h: No such file or 
>>> directory
>>>         7 | #include "setoper.h"
>>>           |          ^~~~~~~~~~~
>>> 
>>> 
>>> xgap-4.30: 
>>> 
>>>     gcc -I. -g -O2   -o xcmds.o -c ../../src.x11/xcmds.c
>>>     In file included from ../../src.x11/xcmds.c:9:
>>>     ../../src.x11/utils.h:130:13: fatal error: X11/X.h: No such file or 
>>> directory
>>>     130 | #include    <X11/X.h>                   /* X11 basic definition   
>>>          */
>>>           |             ^~~~~~~~~
>>> 
>>> 
>>> semigroups-3.2.2: 
>>> 
>>>      363 |   format_arg arg(int id) const { return args_.get(id); }
>>>           |                  ~~~~^~
>>>     In file included from /opt/local/include/fmt/ostream.h:12,
>>>                      from /opt/local/include/fmt/printf.h:14,
>>>                      from 
>>> /Users/me/Downloads/gap-4.11.0/pkg/semigroups-3.2.3/libsemigroups/include/libsemigroups-exception.hpp:32,
>>>                      from 
>>> /Users/me/Downloads/gap-4.11.0/pkg/semigroups-3.2.3/libsemigroups/include/runner.hpp:31,
>>>                      from 
>>> /Users/me/Downloads/gap-4.11.0/pkg/semigroups-3.2.3/libsemigroups/include/fpsemi-intf.hpp:40,
>>>                      from 
>>> /Users/me/Downloads/gap-4.11.0/pkg/semigroups-3.2.3/libsemigroups/include/cong-intf.hpp:29,
>>>                      from 
>>> /Users/me/Downloads/gap-4.11.0/pkg/semigroups-3.2.3/libsemigroups/include/cong-pair.hpp:77,
>>>                      from src/cong-pair.cpp:19:
>>>     /opt/local/include/fmt/format.h:2721:53: error: 'class 
>>> fmt::v6::basic_printf_context<std::back_insert_iterator<fmt::v6::internal::buffer<char>
>>>  >, char>' has no member named 'error_handler'
>>>      2721 |                                                 
>>> ctx.error_handler());
>>>           |                                                 
>>> ~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> 
>>> ——
>>> Murray Eisenberg                                mur...@math.umass.edu 
>>> <mailto:mur...@math.umass.edu> <mailto:mur...@math.umass.edu 
>>> <mailto:mur...@math.umass.edu>>
>>> Professor Emeritus
>>> Mathematics & Statistics Dept.       
>>> University of Massachusetts 
>>> Amherst, MA USA
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> ——
> Murray Eisenberg                                mur...@math.umass.edu 
> <mailto:mur...@math.umass.edu>
> Professor Emeritus
> Mathematics & Statistics Dept.       
> University of Massachusetts 
> Amherst, MA USA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

——
Murray Eisenberg                                mur...@math.umass.edu 
<mailto:mur...@math.umass.edu>
Professor Emeritus
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.       
University of Massachusetts 
Amherst, MA USA





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