It is fixable, surely, although gac, unfortunately, has very little
attention from GAP developers nowadays.
They say the speedup is too small, etc...
If there is sufficient interest in having gac supported from within
Sage, I can look into it, although cannot
promise anything quick, as I am overloaded with other things.

Dima

On May 17, 4:23 pm, William Laffin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi sage,
>
> I'm trying to follow instructions here to compile Gap code for sage:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/fea3c5636494bde1
>
> and it works with a vanilla gap install from gap-system.org. But I get
> errors relating to the build path being hard-coded in the shell script
> from within gap's directory in sage.
>
> wjlaf...@dellbees$ pwd
> /sage/local/lib/gap-4.4.12/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc
> wjlaf...@dellbees$ grep build -n gac
> 54:gap_bin=/sage/spkg/build/gap-4.4.12.p3/src/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu- 
> gcc
>
> With the simple change of making it point to the correct directory, I
> was able to follow the directions fine:
>
> gap_bin=/sage/local/lib/gap-4.4.12/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc
>
> I couldn't find where in the spkg to patch this robustly.
>
> bug? non-issue?
>
> bill
>
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