[GAP Forum] Problem building Gap in an M1 Mac: "ABI=64 is not among the following valid choices: 32"

Tue Aug 17 18:46:59 BST 2021

Dear all

I have been trying to help my coworker install Gap 4.11.1 on his M1 mac.

We had no trouble downloading, and running ./configure
When running make, it fails with the error message in the subject: 
 "ABI=64 is not among the following valid choices: 32"

To note, all macs are 64-bit machines, and so are the new "Apple Silicon" macs with the M1 SoC.

The error may be occurring when building gmp, but I'm not sure.

I would be very grateful for any suggestions. I include below the output we got from running ./configue and make, in case that may help.

Also, if anyone has either a positive or negative experience with installing on an M1 mac, I'd love to hear about it.

Best regards

Luís Sequeira

------- output from make follows --------

touch "/Users/mjoao/gap-4.11.1/extern/gmp/doc/gmp.info"
MAKE=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make ./cnf/build-extern.sh gmp "/Users/mjoao/gap-4.11.1/extern/gmp" ABI=64 --disable-static --enable-shared
=== START building  ===
~/gap-4.11.1/extern/build/gmp ~/gap-4.11.1
checking build system type... arm-apple-darwin20.4.0
checking host system type... arm-apple-darwin20.4.0
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /Users/mjoao/gap-4.11.1/extern/gmp/install-sh -c -d
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checking whether /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
configure: error: ABI=64 is not among the following valid choices: 32

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------- output from ./configure follows --------

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configure: No usable GMP found, switching to included GMP
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating bin/gap.sh
config.status: creating bin/arm-apple-darwin20.4.0-default64-kv7/extern/gmp/include/gmp.h
config.status: creating GNUmakefile
config.status: creating CITATION
config.status: creating doc/make_doc
config.status: creating doc/versiondata
config.status: creating gac
config.status: creating gen/config.h
config.status: gen/config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing gen/stamp-h commands
config.status: executing libtool commands

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Luís Sequeira
lfsequeira at fc.ul.pt