[GAP Forum] ncurses and gmp updates

[Benjamin Sambale]

Dear forum,

my linux distribution (arch linux) switched from ncurses5 to ncurses6 
recently. Since then, I am unable to use GAP (4,7.8). It opens with

#W dlopen() error: libpanelw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No 
such file or directory
Error, module 
'/usr/local/gap4r7/pkg/Browse/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-default64/ncurses.so' 
not found

and several commands do not work properly. Strangely, the problem 
persists after recompiling. I also notice that the compiling process 
downloads gmp5 instead of using gmp6 already provided by the system.

Can someone provide a fix?

Best wishes,
Benjamin