Re: The Agony of GMP

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Dennis & those who suffer the same prob,

If you are on Intel Macs, try recompiling & reinstalling GMP as follows:

tar jxvf gmp-4.2.1.tar.bz2
cd gmp-4.2.1/mpn/x86
rm *dive_1* */*dive_1* */*/*dive_1* */*mode1o* */*/*mode1o*
cd ../..
sh configure --build=i686-apple-darwin --enable-cxx
make
make check
sudo make install

I also blogged this issue as follows (it's in Japanese, though)

http://blog.livedoor.jp/dankogai/archives/50712932.html

Hope it helps.

Dan the Frequent User of BigNum

On Dec 19, 2007, at 23:32 , Dennis Putnam wrote:

> I am trying to install Net::SFTP and it has been a major trial of  
> patience. I finally get it working on one of my servers and now am  
> trying to get it on another. Unfortunately I have run into a brick  
> wall on the 2nd server (both are running 10.4.10) with no clue why  
> they are different. The crux of the problem is that I cannot  
> install Math::BigInt::GMP on this server. It appears there is a  
> problem with the installer but yet this did not happen on the other  
> server.
>
> They key on the other server was to install GMP using macports  
> 'port' command. I did the same on this server and all seemed to go  
> well until I tried to install BigInt. I am getting the following:
>
> Running make for C/CH/CHIPT/Math-GMP-2.04.tar.gz
>   Has already been unwrapped into directory /Users/admin/.cpan/ 
> build/Math-GMP-2.04-nSlAjY
>   Has already been made
> Running make test
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"  
> "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
> t/gmppm......Can't load '/Users/admin/.cpan/build/Math-GMP-2.04- 
> nSlAjY/blib/arch/auto/Math/GMP/GMP.bundle' for module Math::GMP:  
> dlopen(/Users/admin/.cpan/build/Math-GMP-2.04-nSlAjY/blib/arch/auto/ 
> Math/GMP/GMP.bundle, 2): Symbol not found: ___gmpz_mul_2exp
>   Referenced from: /Users/admin/.cpan/build/Math-GMP-2.04-nSlAjY/ 
> blib/arch/auto/Math/GMP/GMP.bundle
>   Expected in: dynamic lookup
> at t/gmppm.t line 7
> Compilation failed in require at t/gmppm.t line 7.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/gmppm.t line 7.
> t/gmppm...... Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
> No subtests run
>
> Can someone help me out with this? TIA.
>

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