[GAP Forum] Problem installing GAP 4.8.10 on MAC OSX

[dmitrii.pasechnik at cs.ox.ac.uk]

Dear Kashyap,

you need XCode command line tools to be installed.
(GAP docs ought to mention this...)

Hope this helps,
Dmitrii

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 05:39:51PM +0530, Dr. Kashyap Rajeevsarathy wrote:
> Dear Forum,
> 
> I have been facing a strange problem while trying to install GAP 4.8.10 on
> OSX High Sierra. After typing *./configure* command from the folder
> location, I get the following error:
> 
> Kashyaps-Mac-Pro:gap4r8 kashyaprajeevsarathy$ ./configure
> 
> ./configure: line 470: sed: command not found
> 
> ./configure: line 469: expr: command not found
> 
> ./configure: line 470: sed: command not found
> 
> ./configure: line 484: sed: command not found
> 
> : error: cannot create .lineno; rerun with a POSIX shell
> 
> I would be great if you could help deal with this issue.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kashyap
> 
> -- 
> Kashyap Rajeevsarathy
> Assistant Professor,
> Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal,
> Indore By-pass Road,
> Bhauri, Bhopal - 462066,
> Madhya Pradesh, India.
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