[gambit-list] problem with 'make update'
Jeff Dik
s450r1 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 11:41:49 EDT 2010
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Breanndán Ó Nualláin
<bon at science.uva.nl> wrote:
>>>>>> "Brad" == Bradley Lucier <lucier at math.purdue.edu> writes:
>
> Marc> Let me explain the problem. If you're only interested in a
> Marc> solution: get v4.6.0 and a make update from that.
>
> Brad> To make an up-to-date Gambit, I'd just download the current
> Brad> development sources. Thinking about it now, I'm not even sure that
> Brad> "make update" will ever work without the complete git tree (i.e.,
> Brad> the development sources).
>
> Thanks Marc & Brad. That did the trick.
>
> After changing to v4_6_0, it installed without further problems.
>
> I was misled by the older version number on the installing-from-git section:
>
> http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Contributing_Patches_to_Gambit_Source_Code
>
> It also left me with the impression that 'make update' would to incremental
> compiles across major version numbers while I understand from Marc's
> explanation that that's not the case.
I ran into this problem too. Would it be ok to add Marc's reply to a
Troubleshooting section on
http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Contributing_Patches_to_Gambit_Source_Code
?
Jeff
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