Question on installing GMP 5.0.3 on MacOS

[Frank Thorne]

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

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.

Thank you! -Frank

On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Hans Aberg wrote:

> On 8 Feb 2012, at 22:37, Frank Thorne wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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