Question on installing GMP 5.0.3 on MacOS

[Hans Aberg]

On 10 Feb 2012, at 22:45, Frank Thorne wrote:

> Indeed, I did have to do that! (And I had to ask for help again, someone on the PARI/GP users board pointed this out to me.)

Fine.

Hans


> Thank you! -Frank
>> 
>> 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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