Make Error - Response

[Patrick Eisenmann]

Awesome. Thanks for the quick response. It's probably pretty arguable that
all three are user errors, but I thought they might be worth noting on the
website somewhere.

I'm not sure where to report this, but I've now used the library for a proof
of concept use of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm, and once installed, the
library works wonderfully and quickly even on magnificently large prime
numbers. So, my compliments to the chefs.


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt <gmp-2009a at ryandesign.com>wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2009, at 21:29, Patrick Eisenmann wrote:
>
>  I encountered 3 main problems while trying to install GMP onto my Macbook
>> (OS 10.5.6).
>>
>> The first, if I try to make check in uncompressed library and that library
>> has a space character anywhere in its path, my make check fails on the first
>> set of tests. Moving to a lower directory fixed this.
>>
>
> Spaces in the path is a general problem for most UNIX software. I once
> reported this as a bug to the people who make the autotools software, and
> they said it is not a bug, it is a user error, and they will not fix it.
> Therefore to save yourself from running into these problems, I recommend you
> use paths that do not contain spaces.
>
>
>  Second, if you accidentally make check before make, it fails inexplicably
>> and reports problems that shouldn't exist. Using make clean, then starting
>> again from the beginning fixed this.
>>
>
> I'll let the gmp people respond to this; it sounds like a bug. (Some
> missing dependency in the makefile?)
>
>
>  Third, make install failed due to permission errors. Using sudo make
>> install (and having the root password) fixed this.
>>
>
> That's expected, since by default it wants to install into /usr/local which
> requires administrator privilege to modify. If you want to install to a
> location that doesn't require administrator privilege, specify it at
> configure time using the --prefix=/wherever switch.
>
>
>
>


-- 
Patrick Eisenmann
Undergrad Computer Science
peisenmann at gatech.edu
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