[GAP Forum] Build problem

[Bill Maier]

That did it. Thanks!

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Christopher Jefferson <
caj21 at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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