Re: Please test pari-2.5.3 prerelease 1

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

Following up on this:

On Sep 27, 2012, at 15:19 , Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:39:44PM -0700, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 25, 2012, at 05:10 , Bill Allombert wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear PARI developers,
>>> 
>>> As planned, I have made a prerelease of PARI 2.5.3.
>>> 
>>> Please test the new tarball:
>>> <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/snapshots/pari-2.5.3.pre1.tar.gz>
>> 
>> Mac OS X, 10.6.8 (Dual 6-core Xeons): built and ran "make bench" without problems.
>> 
>> "make test-all" showed several failures:
>> 	ellglobalred-sta.dif
>> 	ellsea-sta.dif
>> 	galois-sta.dif
>> Expected?  Do I need additional (optional) gizmos for these tests?
> 
> Yes the tests require the optionnal packages.
> ellglobalred -> elldata
> ellsea -> seadata
> galois -> galdata

I followed the instructions on the website, untarring in the installation directory, but the "test-all" results were the same.  I did not do a full install, since I didn't want this to blow away my current install.  Should I do that (by setting a prefix during the "Configure" phase)?

Thanks.

Justin

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