[GAP Forum] New update of GAP released

Dr Andrew C Aitchison A.C.Aitchison at dpmms.cam.ac.uk
Tue Dec 30 07:07:08 GMT 2008


On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Justin C. Walker wrote:

> Dear Forum,
>
> On Dec 19, 2008, at 04:23 , John McDermott wrote:
>
>> Following the recent announcement of GAP 4.4.11, we announce the release of
>> GAP 4 release 4 update 12 (GAP 4.4.12 for short), which is available now 
>> from
>> the GAP Web pages and FTP site. We have made this release quickly after the
>> previous release due to the discovery of a bug introduced in GAP 4.4.11 
>> which
>> could cause GAP to crash whenever a GAP function was executed while certain
>> loops or functions were parsed, for example via the hooks used for prompt
>> colouring.
>
> I upgraded from p11 to p12, and then applied the recommended tests:
> gap>  ReadTest(Filename(DirectoriesLibrary("tst"), "bugfix.tst"));
>
> I got one "error":
>  + Record Element: <rec> must be a record (not a boolean)

There is a line before that message iun my error:
/usr/gap4r4/pkg/atlasrep/datagens/HSG1-p100B0.m1: Permission denied
+ Record Element: <rec> must be a record (not a boolean)

Running the test once as a user with write permission on the
/usr/gap4r4/pkg/atlasrep/datagens/ directory
the problem goes away for all users.

Is this your problem too ?

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison at dpmms.cam.ac.uk	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna



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