[GAP Forum] "Crc mismatch"

[Joe Bohanon]

Try starting gap with the "-N" command, then run CreateCompletionFiles();
quit and restart.

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Justin C. Walker <justin at mac.com> wrote:

> Dear Forum,
>
> I just downloaded and built Gap 4.4.12 (Mac OS X, 10.6.4, Dual Quad Xeon).
>  I tried to get help, and got the following:
>
> gap> ?QuaternionAlgebra
> Error, Rebuild completion files! (Crc value of
> "./lib/helpdef.gi" does not match.) at
> HELP_BOOKS_INFO.(bnam) := HELP_BOOK_HANDLER.(handler).ReadSix( stream );
>
> I'm kind of clueless at this point.  Brand new installation, from a newly
> downloaded tarball.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Justin
>
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