On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:44:55PM +0800, Gordon Royle wrote: > On both Linux and Mac OS I am having trouble compiling GAP 4r5 from scratch. > > In each case, GMP is not installed system-wide and so the included-GMP is > compiled instead, and this compilation fails - actually it is not the > compilation that fails, but the GMP "self-check" after it has compiled. > > ***Error: GMP self-check has failed. See > bin/x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0-gcc/64-bit/extern/gmp-5.0.1/check_log for > details.*** > > make[1]: *** [gmp_build] Error 1 > make: *** [extern] Error 2 > > When I actually look at the "check_log" for details as instructed, it says: > > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `check'. Stop. > > (Yes, just one line in the file) > > > On one system I don't have root privileges to install GMP system-wide and I'd > rather not do it on the other system if I can just use a supplied GMP … > > Please advise!
What C compiler are you using, and what version ? Mac OS 10.7 default compiler is notoriously buggy. Cheers, Bill. _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
