[GAP Forum] Compiling GAP 4r5

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:44:55PM +0800, Gordon Royle wrote:
> On both Linux and Mac OS I am having trouble compiling GAP 4r5 from scratch.
> 
> In each case, GMP is not installed system-wide and so the included-GMP is compiled instead, and this compilation fails - actually it is not the compilation that fails, but the GMP "self-check" after it has compiled.
> 
> ***Error: GMP self-check has failed. See bin/x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0-gcc/64-bit/extern/gmp-5.0.1/check_log for details.***
> 
> make[1]: *** [gmp_build] Error 1
> make: *** [extern] Error 2
> 
> When I actually look at the "check_log" for details as instructed, it says:
> 
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `check'.  Stop.
> 
> (Yes, just one line in the file)
> 
> 
> On one system I don't have root privileges to install GMP system-wide and I'd rather not do it on the other system if I can just use a supplied GMP …
> 
> Please advise!

What C compiler are you using, and what version ? 
Mac OS 10.7 default compiler is notoriously buggy.

Cheers,
Bill.