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GAP - Groups, Algorithms, Programming - a System for Computational Discrete Algebra
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make clean does not work #90

Closed olexandr-konovalov closed 7 years ago

olexandr-konovalov commented 7 years ago

After building with HPC-GAP support, I had an error after calling make clean (and why all that checks are needed?):

checking size of long... 8
checking size of long long... 8
checking whether to enable HPC-GAP... yes
checking whether to enable debug mode... no
./configure: line 16678: syntax error near unexpected token `GMP,'
./configure: line 16678: `    AX_CHECK_LIBRARY(GMP, gmp.h, gmp, __gmpz_init)'

Fixed by rerunning autogen.sh

fingolfin commented 7 years ago

This looks as if you had a broken configure file for some reason, and fixed it by re-running autogen.sh. Not sure there is anything to "fix" in this issue?

I am also not 100% sure what you mean with "and why all that checks are needed?" -- my guess is that you did "make clean" and it started to re-run configure and you are asking "why is it doing that" ? Well that is a side effect of the "maintainer" mode, in which configure is automatically re-run if configure.ac was modified -- this happens first thing for any call to make, as the fresh configure run might change settings that in turn affect make. The code doing that is generic -- even though make clean likely is not affected by such a re-run (but it might be in the future...)

olexandr-konovalov commented 7 years ago

OK, then I will close this. Yes, my question "and why all that checks are needed?" what about that.