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The FORM project for symbolic manipulation of very big expressions
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Form not installed in macOS Catalina #381

Open arindamdasphysics opened 3 years ago

arindamdasphysics commented 3 years ago

Dear Form Team,

I was trying to install Form in MacOS Catalina and MacPorts. After performing

autoreconf -i ./configure make

without any issue, I was trying to perform 'make install' which stopped with the following error message :

Making install in doxygen make[3]: Nothing to be done for install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done forinstall-data-am'. Making install in manual make[3]: Nothing to be done for install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done forinstall-data-am'. Making install in devref make[3]: Nothing to be done for install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done forinstall-data-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. .././build-aux/install-sh -c -d '/usr/local/share/man/man1' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 form.1 '/usr/local/share/man/man1' Making install in sources [ -f version.h ] || ln -s "./version.h.in" version.h [ -f version.h ] || ln -s "./version.h.in" version.h .././build-aux/install-sh -c -d '/usr/local/bin' /usr/bin/install -c form tform '/usr/local/bin' install: /usr/local/bin/form: Permission denied make[2]: [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 71 make[1]: [install-am] Error 2 make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Could you please help to solve this issue. Many thanks for your time and consideration.

Regards, Arindam

tueda commented 3 years ago

I'm not so sure about MacOS Catalina and MacPorts, but do you have the root privilege to install FORM to /usr/local/ (if you really want to do this)? On Linux, it may be done by sudo make install, though the FORM binary is a single file, and so you can just run it.

arindamdasphysics commented 3 years ago

Dear Takahiro,

Many thanks for the kind and quick reply. I am sorry for the late response. I was testing different ways. Now I have installed Form locally

autoreconf -I ./configure --prefix=/Users/home1/Form/form1 make make install

and attached the path in ~/.zshrc of the Catalina:

export PATH=/Users/home1/Form/form1/bin:$PATH

It passed make check.

I have tested form for a 2 -> 2 process and it is working fine.

Regards, Arindam

tueda commented 3 years ago

Glad to hear that it works and now you can use FORM!

FYI: Probably the MAN file has been installed in /Users/home1/Form/form1/share/man. If you add this path to $MANPATH then man form will show the command-line options, though this is not necessary and these options can be easily found in the reference manual on the web site.