Dear Enrique, I cc to sage-support, as it is an appropriate venue for such requests.
On 16-Jun-2011, at 3:28 PM, Enrique Artal Bartolo wrote: > Dear Dimitri, > I am not sure if your are the good correspondant for this mail. I am a gap > user and now > I started to use sage. I appreciate a lot your work but I have a small > problem. > I installed the optional spkg with additional packages for gap; there are some > packages which I use with gap (outside sage) which are not included. I tried > to compile them in the sage tree but sage-gap does not recognize them. I guess > that it is impossible to have a spkg with all gap packages and I have two > questions: > > What is needed to change in some conf file for a package to be recognized if > installed > in gap inside sage? if the GAP packages in question do not need to be compiled, all you need to do is to put your GAP packages in $SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/gap-4.4.12/pkg/ to see exactly what needs to be done in the more complex cases, have a look in gap_packages spkg (spkg files are just bzip2-compressed tar archives, so you can easily see (in spkg-install file) what needs to be done to do proper configuring/compiling) If I recall right, you just have to start sage -sh, cd into SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/gap-4.4.12/pkg/<your-package>, and do the usual for <your-package> sequence of ./configure and make Please let us know if you still have problems with this setup. > > Is there a way to replace the gap tree in sage with the system gap tree? > I don't recall what exactly makes this tricky, but it is not 100% trivial. > Sincerely, Enrique Artal. Best, Dmitrii -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
