Compiling and Installing GAP System for Computational Discrete Algebra

GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra, with particular emphasis on Computational Group Theory. GAP provides a programming language, a library of thousands of functions implementing algebraic algorithms written in the GAP language as well as large data libraries of algebraic The objects. The information is taken from Compilation Step 1: Download the GAP Software Download the GAP Software at http://www.gap-system.org/Releases/index.html Current version at point of writing is 4.5.6

# tar -zxvf gap4r5p6_2012_11_04-18_46.tar.gz

# cd gap4r5p6

Step 2: Configure and Install (Default Installation)

#./configure

# make

Step 3: Optional Installation - GMP packages. If you wish to use the GAP internal GMP Packges, then the version of GMP bundled with this GAP will be used. This is the default.

# ./configure --with-gmp=yes|no|system|"path"

Step 4: Optional Installation - Readline Editing for better command-line Editing. If the argument you supply is yes, then GAP will look in standard locations for a Readline installed on your system. Or you can specify a path to a Readline installation.

# ./configure --with-readline=yes|no|"path"

For more information, See INSTALL when you unpacked the GAP.