[GAP Forum] GAP-4.8.4 or 4.8.3?

[Vinay Wagh]

Not really!!! I have only one installation directory (in fact I keep
overwriting every version, using a customized script).

However deleting the whole directory and re-running the script solved the
issue.

Thanks anyway.

VInay


$ ./bin/gap.sh
┌───────┐   GAP 4.8.3, 19-Mar-2016, build of 2016-06-04 01:23:49 (IST)
│  GAP  │   http://www.gap-system.org
└───────┘   Architecture: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-default64
Libs used:  gmp
Loading the library and packages ...
Components: trans 1.0, prim 2.1, small* 1.0, id* 1.0
Packages:   AClib 1.2, Alnuth 3.0.0, AtlasRep 1.5.1, AutPGrp 1.6,
             Browse 1.8.6, CRISP 1.4.4, Cryst 4.1.12, CrystCat 1.1.6,
             CTblLib 1.2.2, FactInt 1.5.3, FGA 1.3.1, GAPDoc 1.5.1,
             IO 4.4.6, IRREDSOL 1.3.1, LAGUNA 3.7.0, Polenta 1.3.6,
             Polycyclic 2.11, RadiRoot 2.7, ResClasses 4.5.0,
             Sophus 1.23, SpinSym 1.5, TomLib 1.2.5, Utils 0.40
Try '??help' for help. See also '?copyright', '?cite' and '?authors'
gap>

On 23-Aug-2016 16:14, "Dima Pasechnik" <dmitrii.pasechnik at cs.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Dear Vinay,
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 09:34:54AM +0530, Vinay Wagh wrote:
> > I am not sure whether this is a problem or not!
> >
> > I am trying to install latest GAP release -- 4.8.4 on my 64bit Ubuntu
> > 14.04 system (from the link
> > http://www.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap48/tar.gz/gap4r8p4_2016
> _06_04-12_41.tar.gz).
> >
> > After the successful compilation, if I start gap, then in the banner I
> > can see the version as 4.8.3 with build of 4th June.
> >
> > Am I missing something while compilation?
>
> You have more than one installation of GAP on your machine, and
> launching the wrong one, not the one you compiled.
> The one you would compile this way, say, in a directory A,
> can be launched by changing to A and running
> ./bin/gap.sh
>
> And the prompt would look like:
>
>  ┌───────┐   GAP 4.8.4, 04-Jun-2016, build of 2016-08-23 11:16:47 (BST)
>  │  GAP  │   http://www.gap-system.org
>  └───────┘   Architecture: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-default64
>  Libs used:  gmp, readline
>  Loading the library and packages ...
>  Components: trans 1.0, prim 2.1, small* 1.0, id* 1.0
>  Packages:   AClib 1.2, Alnuth 3.0.0, AtlasRep 1.5.1, AutPGrp 1.6, CRISP
> 1.4.4, Cryst 4.1.12,
>              CrystCat 1.1.6, CTblLib 1.2.2, FactInt 1.5.3, FGA 1.3.1,
> GAPDoc 1.5.1, IRREDSOL 1.3.1,
>              LAGUNA 3.7.0, Polenta 1.3.6, Polycyclic 2.11, RadiRoot 2.7,
> ResClasses 4.5.0, Sophus 1.23,
>              SpinSym 1.5, TomLib 1.2.5, Utils 0.40
>  Try '??help' for help. See also '?copyright', '?cite' and '?authors'
>
> HTH,
> Dmitrii
>
> >
> > The output -->
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >  ┌───────┐   GAP 4.8.3, 19-Mar-2016, build of 2016-06-04 01:23:49 (IST)
> >  │  GAP  │   http://www.gap-system.org
> >  └───────┘   Architecture: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-default64
> >  Libs used:  gmp
> >  Loading the library and packages ...
> >  Components: trans 1.0, prim 2.1, small* 1.0, id* 1.0
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > VInay
> >
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