On 2012-02-15, at 9:14 AM, Sid H wrote:

Hi all,

I tried the prebuilt macosx images, but they both show failures when installing. I downloaded the dmg files from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.6/prebuilt/gambc-v4_6... and http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.6/prebuilt/gambc-v4_6...

The final summary say "The installation failed. The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

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From a terminal I'm able to run gsi and gsc after this. I presume its because I don't have gcc installed (yet!). Is that a possible reason? Does the installer try to run something that requires gcc?

I'm on a new Macbook Pro (hence no gcc), and I tried both the 32bit and 64bit versions.

That is strange. I have used the 32 bit installer to install v4.6.4 on a MacBook pro (early 2011 version), a 3 year old MacBook Pro, a 2 year old iMac, and there were no issues.

Have you checked some obvious things (perhaps your disk is full, or your download was corrupted (which browser did you use?)).

I wonder if the precise error message was added to the system log. Can you check the content of /var/log/system.log ?

Marc

On 2012-02-15, at 9:44 AM, Sid H wrote:

On 15-Feb-2012, at 7:52 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:

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On 2012-02-15, at 9:14 AM, Sid H wrote:

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Hi all,

I tried the prebuilt macosx images, but they both show failures when installing. I downloaded the dmg files from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.6/prebuilt/gambc-v4_6... and http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.6/prebuilt/gambc-v4_6...

The final summary say "The installation failed. The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

...

From a terminal I'm able to run gsi and gsc after this. I presume its because I don't have gcc installed (yet!). Is that a possible reason? Does the installer try to run something that requires gcc?

I'm on a new Macbook Pro (hence no gcc), and I tried both the 32bit and 64bit versions.

That is strange. I have used the 32 bit installer to install v4.6.4 on a MacBook pro (early 2011 version), a 3 year old MacBook Pro, a 2 year old iMac, and there were no issues.

Have you checked some obvious things (perhaps your disk is full, or your download was corrupted (which browser did you use?)).

There's plenty of space on disk; gambit-c is one of the first things I'm installing. To download I used Safari. Are the MD5 checksums available? I have the following

$ md5 gambc-v4_v4_6_4-macosx-intel* MD5 (gambc-v4_6_4-macosx-intel32.dmg) = f48c3f366762045a1d032e35f5610c93 MD5 (gambc-v4_6_4-macosx-intel64.dmg) = 6ab0a9d71baeee026629c8b9fe6ce7be

It seems you have the right files. Here are the MD5 sums:

258c3b689248ea000f86f94284509f3d gambc-v4_6_0-macosx-G3.dmg 39cc34b6e66bd67dfe9a4fb36a0164b1 gambc-v4_6_0-macosx-G4.dmg c07c8e5736b450fa3aecf1b25eb03755 gambc-v4_6_0-macosx-G5.dmg d5956448e8b3beb932e5c705a8f02a0e gambc-v4_6_0-macosx-intel32.dmg 90d70ce6daeb8ffe650e0a4bfb6c0b58 gambc-v4_6_0-macosx-intel64.dmg ba359706c61fc9853a4a85367c44f105 gambc-v4_6_0-macosx-universal.dmg 63546c6adbb26a2d35d1d664d8654d34 gambc-v4_6_0-windows-mingw.exe 7c8510c942afc13323488e7cbd5f04aa gambc-v4_6_0-windows-visualc.exe 205d800a8c6ea3fe8637646ee5b8c297 gambc-v4_6_1-macosx-intel32.dmg 4fbb2dedf711ed98d555e963d8d4e4e6 gambc-v4_6_1-macosx-intel64.dmg 7ec78448d09786c6725924b9d4189b49 gambc-v4_6_1-windows-mingw.exe 3f5e268226477859753c6a898eccccc8 gambc-v4_6_1-windows-visualc.exe 7da1eca291360bf549245bc10e96c89d gambc-v4_6_2-macosx-intel32.dmg 69557d88f0cf57b883e37ecbdbe09dc7 gambc-v4_6_2-macosx-intel64.dmg 610167c3e383f2e2194673319868673c gambc-v4_6_2-windows-mingw.exe 23ab8a9c4ef5b484673b5c7c7e142111 gambc-v4_6_2-windows-visualc.exe 58f522d2014ea1040ef99f3660fa7ccb gambc-v4_6_3-macosx-intel32.dmg c0b484a288e353d8d9196480b0579192 gambc-v4_6_3-macosx-intel64.dmg a9c61e1bd852d44fb25a0dd80773ced2 gambc-v4_6_3-windows-mingw.exe 7f17897c830f6506c724f0ce912a051e gambc-v4_6_3-windows-visualc.exe f48c3f366762045a1d032e35f5610c93 gambc-v4_6_4-macosx-intel32.dmg 6ab0a9d71baeee026629c8b9fe6ce7be gambc-v4_6_4-macosx-intel64.dmg 7dd767feae9623042d0bffd045537427 gambc-v4_6_4-windows-mingw.exe 9c6fc0236a3a70378376e2de60012a89 gambc-v4_6_4-windows-visualc.exe

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I wonder if the precise error message was added to the system log. Can you check the content of /var/log/system.log ?

The log has the following -

Feb 15 19:47:23 h83-5 installd[2346]: Starting Feb 15 19:47:23 h83-5 installd[2346]: uid=0, euid=0 Feb 15 19:47:26 h83-5 Installer[2340]: The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Feb 15 19:47:33 h83-5 installd[2346]: Exiting.

That's not very useful! I have no clue what is happening. I'm copying below the file InstallationCheck.in, from which the file InstallationCheck is generated by the configure script. This file is used by the installer to make sure that installing Gambit will not clobber any existing file. Normally, when this happens the installer will display a message, so I don't think this is the problem. But please have a look at the file in case something catches your eye.

Marc

#! /bin/sh

# Copyright (c) 1994-2009 by Marc Feeley, All Rights Reserved.

PROGRAMS="@PROGRAMS@" LIBRARIES="@LIBRARIES@" INCLUDES="@INCLUDES@"

BIN_DIR="@BIN_DIR@" LIB_DIR="@LIB_DIR@" INCLUDE_DIR="@INCLUDE_DIR@"

INSTALL_DIR="@INSTALL_DIR@" GAMBC_BIN_DIR="$INSTALL_DIR/current/bin" GAMBC_LIB_DIR="$INSTALL_DIR/current/lib" GAMBC_INCLUDE_DIR="$INSTALL_DIR/current/include"

FIRST_EXISTING_INCORRECT=""

i=0

check_clobber() # dir, gambc_dir, files { DIR="$1" GAMBC_DIR="$2" FILES="$3"

EXISTING_CORRECT="" EXISTING_INCORRECT="" MISSING=""

if [ "$FIRST_EXISTING_INCORRECT" == "" ] ; then

for f in $FILES ; do

if [ -e "$DIR/$f" ] ; then if [ -L "$DIR/$f" -a "`readlink "$DIR/$f"`" == "$GAMBC_DIR/$f" ] ; then EXISTING_CORRECT="$EXISTING_CORRECT $f" else EXISTING_INCORRECT="$EXISTING_INCORRECT $f" if [ "$FIRST_EXISTING_INCORRECT" == "" ] ; then FIRST_EXISTING_INCORRECT="$i" fi fi else MISSING="$MISSING $f" fi

i=`expr $i + 1`

done

if [ "$FIRST_EXISTING_INCORRECT" != "" ] ; then for f in $EXISTING_INCORRECT ; do echo "The installation process is being aborted because the file $DIR/$f exists and it was not created by the Gambit-C installer." done exit `expr $FIRST_EXISTING_INCORRECT + 16 + 96` fi

echo "EXISTING_CORRECT = $EXISTING_CORRECT" echo "EXISTING_INCORRECT = $EXISTING_INCORRECT" echo "MISSING = $MISSING" fi }

check_clobber "$BIN_DIR" "$GAMBC_BIN_DIR" "$PROGRAMS" check_clobber "$LIB_DIR" "$GAMBC_LIB_DIR" "$LIBRARIES" check_clobber "$INCLUDE_DIR" "$GAMBC_INCLUDE_DIR" "$INCLUDES"

exit 0