[Fwd: Re: [GAP Forum] Help Configuring GAP Packages on iBook 900 MHz]

[Alexander Konovalov]

Dear Jeffrey,

I put some notes how to install some GAP packages on Mac OS X here:

http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~alexk/gap/pkgmacos.txt

Hope that they may help in your situation.

Best wishes,
Alexander


On 8 Feb 2008, at 21:42, Jeffrey Rolland wrote:

> Hello, again, all!
>
> Thanks so much for your help with the package install script.
>
> It turns out that the install script crashed on the "nq" ("Nilpotent  
> Quotient") package. The problem appears to be that one of the files  
> attempts to include the "malloc.h" library, but this package has  
> been replaced by the "stdlib.h" package on Mac Os X.
>
> I tried just changing the inclusion, but the script appears to run  
> cvs to download the source files.
>
> Has anyone had any success getting this package to compile on Mac OS  
> X? I am running Tiger (OS 10.4.11) on an iBook G3 900 MHz with 640  
> MB of RAM.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
>
> Sincerely,
> --
> Jeffrey Rolland
> <rollandj at uwm.edu>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [GAP Forum] Help Configuring GAP Packages on iBook 900  
> MHz
> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:21:12 -0600
> From: Jeffrey Rolland <rollandj at uwm.edu>
> To: forum at gap-system.org
> References: <47A50AFF.9030408 at uwm.edu> <9CF7DA53-B536-42DA-97E3-1D706B5A0500 at mac.com 
> >
>
> Alexander Hulpke wrote:
>> Dear Jeffrey Rolland,
>>> The packages are installed in the directory /usr/local/lib/gap4r4/ 
>>> pkg/. Inside this directory, there is a shell script  
>>> InstPackages.sh; I am attaching a copy of InstPackages.sh.
>>>
>>> When I cd to /usr/local/lib/gap4r4/pkg/ and run ./InstPackages.sh,  
>>> I get the error message "tcsh: ./InstPackages.sh: Command not  
>>> found." (I am running tcsh as my default shell.)
>> The error is prompted by the fact that the script wants to run  
>> using `sh' at `/usr/bin/sh', while under OSX sh sits under `/bin/sh'.
>> You could edit this first line of InstallPackages.sh, tough you  
>> might get similar errors from other packages.
>
> <snip>
>
>> Best,
>>    Alexander Hulpke
>
> Alexander,
>
> Thanks so much for your reply!
>
> The /usr/bin/sh vs. /bin/sh thing appears to have been it. It's  
> running
> now - yay!
>
> If I have any futher problems, I'll email again, but that was it for  
> now.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Sincerely,
> -- 
> Jeffrey Rolland
> <rollandj at uwm.edu>
>
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