Question on installing GMP 5.0.3 on MacOS

[Hans Aberg]

On 10 Feb 2012, at 20:38, Frank Thorne wrote:

> Wes, Paul, and Hans, thank you for all your help!

You are welcome.

> I had not known about this MacPorts program and I found that it works like a charm. After some more poking around I got everything to work.

When you compile your other program, you probably need to tell where the pari stuff is. Before 'make' change in the Makefile the line
  PARIHOME=/usr/local
to
  PARIHOME=/opt/local/
If you have Xcode installed, you can type
  open -a Xcode Makefile
then edit and save.

Hans


> Thank you! -Frank
> 
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Hans Aberg wrote:
> 
>> On 8 Feb 2012, at 22:37, Frank Thorne wrote:
>> 
>>> I might mention that I'm rather in over my head; I know basically nothing about Linux/Unix C compliation or system administration, this is a dependency of another program (PARI/GP), which in turn is a dependency of another program (Karim Belabas's cubic) which I am attempting to compile so I can run it.
>>> 
>>> If anyone can suggest what I might do, please let me know. I have read the documentation and searched the internet to the extent of my ability.
>> 
>> Pari is available on MacPorts http://www.macports.org/, and the Pari homepage says also Fink. If you can, also upgrade the OS - 10.5.8 is unlikely supported by any developer at this point in time.
>> 
>> Hans
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