Re: Miscellaneous problems upgrading to PARI 2.5.3 problems on a Mac 10.8

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 02:05:47PM +0100, Ewan Delanoy wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>  I am currently trying to upgrade the PARI-GP version on my Mac to the latest stable version, but as I expected I am encountering miscellaneous problems :
> 
>  Executing the instructions of the INSTALL file, â./Configureâ and âmake allâ work without problems, but âmake benchâ appears to become stranded (more than 15 min, after which I decided to abort the process) with the following output :
> 
>  MacBook-Pro-de-Ewan:pari-2.5.3 ewandelanoy$ sudo make bench
>  Making bench in Odarwin-i386
>  rm -f gp-sta
>  * Testing objets for gp-sta..BUG [1] for gp-dyn..BUG [1]
>  * Testing analyz for gp-sta..TIME=12 for gp-dyn..TIME=12
>  * Testing number for gp-sta..
> 
> 
>  And this partial upgrade has corrupted my GP interpreter : now it displays a strange behavior exemplified below :
> 
>  GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.5.3 (released)
>  i386 running darwin (x86-64/GMP-5.0.4 kernel) 64-bit version
>  compiled: Jan 24 2013, gcc-4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)

This is a known issue with the compiler Apple ship in 10.8. See bug #1230.
This is reported to this list every month or so.

Cheers,
Bill.