Re: Installing PARI

[Cherry Kearton <cherry.kearton@durham.ac.uk>]

Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:22:09PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
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> > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Cherry Kearton wrote:
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> > > Dear All,
> > >              I am trying to install PARI on my Dell Dimension desktop 
> > > (Intel Pentium 4), running SuSE Linux 9.3.  The output from ./Configure 
> > > and from "make gp" and "make bench" are shown in the attached file.  
> > > ./Configure cannot find some things and the two "make" commands produce 
> > > errors.
> > >      
> > As far as we understand this is a bug in SuSE version of gcc.  This
> > works fine with gcc-3.3.6.  
> >    
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> > > /tmp/ccRE9vHb.s:17314: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `div'
> > > make[1]: *** [mp.o] Error 1
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cherry/pari-2.1.7/Olinux-i686'
> > > make: *** [bench] Error 2
> > >      
> > The compiler produce assembly that the assembler do not understand.
> > Looking at /tmp/ccRE9vHb.s line 17314 might be instructive.
> >    
>
> Philippe Elbaz-Vincent provided me with the offending asm line and
> it might not be a compiler bug after all. Instead this seems to
> be an instance of 2.2.3F45, fixed with src/kernel/ix86/level0.h version
> 1.4, so I suppose we should backport this fix the the 2.1 branch.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>  
               Many thanks to Bill and Philippe, but I am not familiar 
with C or with compiling.  What do I need to do to install PARI on my 
machine?  I have downloaded gcc-3.3.6, but I don't want to install it if 
it isn't necessary or if it is not sufficient.

               Thanks again,

                Cherry