Re: Please test pari-2.8.0 prerelease 1

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:02:37AM +0100, John Cremona wrote:
> I have been building 2.8.0 on several ubuntu machines.  In each case I
> first unpack the files elldata.tgz  galdata.tgz  galpol.tgz
> seadata.tgz into data/ as I have always done, before ./Configure.  But
> after the build when I run "make test-all" I see
> 
> ! Skipping galois: optional package galdata not installed.
> 
> and similar lines about the other packages.
> 
> When I run the local version ./gp (since I have not yet done "make
> install") to try something manually I can see the problem:
> ? ellidentify(e)
>   ***   at top-level: ellidentify(e)
>   ***                 ^--------------
>   *** ellidentify: error opening elldata file:
> `/usr/local/share/pari/elldata/ell5'.
> 
> It seems that gp knows that I will later install it in /usr/local, but
> not that I have not yet done this.  This makes "make test-all" less
> useful, unless I first pre-install the data/ stuff.  I think I only
> just noticed this as I have been doing the build on a couple of
> machines which were new and so had not yet had pari/gp installed in
> /usr/local/
> 
> I am not sure how to fix this, but I think there is something to be
> fixed since one should be able to run "make test-all" before "make
> install" and see no errors!  Perhaps there could be an environment
> variable set to the path where the data files are, which "make
> test-all" would set to "./data", while the installed version could use
> a default.

Such environment variable exists, see man gp, it is named GP_DATA_DIR.
You can do:

GP_DATA_DIR=`pwd`/data make test-galois
GP_DATA_DIR=`pwd`/data ./gp

but it is better directly to extract the extra packages in their final
destination since this saves lots of diskspace and time compared to 
make install-data

Cheers,
Bill.