[GAP Forum] Build problem

[Christopher Jefferson]

GAP requires the ‘gapdoc’ package to function, but it is not distributed with GAP (we probably should either improve the messages, or not require it, but that is a longer-term issue).

To get GAP working, run either:

‘ make bootstrap-pkg-minimal ‘ to get just the packages GAP needs to start or
‘ make bootstrap-pkg-full ‘ to get a complete set of packages.



On 16/08/2016, 20:12, "forum-bounces at gap-system.org on behalf of Bill Maier" <forum-bounces at gap-system.org on behalf of ciric50 at gmail.com> wrote:

    I'm on Linux Mint 64-bit version 18 and am trying to build a local version
    of GAP from the latest
    source code. I am a software engineer and would like to start contributing
    to GAP. I pulled code
    using "git clone https://github.com/gap-system/gap.git". Ran .configure and
    then make
    which had no problems.
    
    But then when I run bin/gap.sh, the system reports this:
    
    bmaier at mint-desktop ~/Packages/github/gap/bin $ ./gap.sh
     ┌───────┐   GAP v4.8.4-702-g80a0966 of 2016-08-16 14:06:52 (CDT)
     │  GAP  │   http://www.gap-system.org
     └───────┘   Architecture: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-default64
     Libs used:  gmp
     Loading the library and packages ...
    #I  gapdoc package is not available. Check that the name is correct
    #I  and it is present in one of the GAP root directories (see '??RootPaths')
    #I  GAP: needed package gapdoc cannot be loaded
    Error, failed to load needed package `gapdoc' (version >= 1.2) at
    /home/bmaier/Packages/github/gap/lib/package.gi:1836 called from
    func(  ); at /home/bmaier/Packages/github/gap/lib/system.g:159 called from
    <function "CallAndInstallPostRestore">( <arguments> )
     called from read-eval loop at
    /home/bmaier/Packages/github/gap/lib/init.g:770
    
    It still actually runs most simple commands. However when
    I try to run the command "Factorial(8);" I get this:
    
    Error, Factorial: function is not yet defined in
      <compiled or corrupted statement>  called from
    func(  ); at /home/bmaier/Packages/github/gap/lib/system.g:159 called from
    <function "CallAndInstallPostRestore">( <arguments> )
     called from read-eval loop at *errin*:2
    
    Can someone tell me what is wrong?
    
    -Bill
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