[Debian-science-sagemath] GAP: issue related to compressed manual.six: PATCHES: reproducing issue

[Jerome BENOIT]

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On 11/12/16 22:15, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Ximin Luo:
>> Ximin Luo:
>>> [..]
>>>
>>> To demonstrate this in slightly more detail, I have attached two files:
>>>
>>> - sagetest.g  - this is directly from Sage, for Bill's reference
>>>
>>> - sagetest.py - this is my attempt to come up with a "minimal test example". 
>>
>> Here is a minimal example, purely only with GAP, no Sage involved.
>>
>> You still need sagetest.g from my previous email, but you don't need to download my compressed workspace, the following commands will generate it:
>>
>> $ rm -f test.w 
>>
>> [..]
> 
> Sorry, I should have waited for a bit longer before writing the previous email. Here is an even smaller example, involving no material from Sage, not even sagetest.g:
> 
> $ rm -f test.w 
> $ { echo 'SaveWorkspace("./test.w");'; } | gap -q -b
> true
> 
> $ { echo '?FieldByMatricesNC;'; } | gap -q -b -L ./test.w 
> #W  corrupted 'manual.six': ##W (in stream: InputTextFile(/usr/share/gap/doc/t\
> ut/manual.six))
> #W  corrupted 'manual.six': ##W (in stream: InputTextFile(/usr/share/gap/doc/c\
> hanges/manual.six))
> #W  corrupted 'manual.six':  intro.tex 1. Introduction
> #W (in stream: InputTextFile(/usr/share/gap/pkg/Alnuth/doc/manual.six))
> Error, no method found! For debugging hints type ?Recovery from NoMethodFound
> Error, no 1st choice method found for `+' on 2 arguments called from
> pos - 1 at /usr/share/gap/lib/helpdef.gi:168 called from
> HELP_BOOK_HANDLER.(handler).ReadSix( stream 
>  ) at /usr/share/gap/lib/helpbase.gi:679 called from
> func( C[i] ) at /usr/share/gap/lib/coll.gi:746 called from
> List( books, HELP_BOOK_INFO 
>  ) at /usr/share/gap/lib/helpbase.gi:934 called from
> HELP_GET_MATCHES( books, topic, frombegin 
>  ) at /usr/share/gap/lib/helpbase.gi:968 called from
> ...  at line 1 of *stdin*
> you can 'quit;' to quit to outer loop, or
> you can 'return;' to continue
> brk> 
> 
> So it seems saving a workspace, even an "empty" one, then loading it again, causes GAP to be unable to parse the old-style manuals.

more precisely, any old-style manual once compressed.

Just uncompressed the manual.six in /usr/share/gap , and the issue is gone:

find /usr/share/gap -name 'manual.siz.gz' -exec gunzip \{\} \;


Jerome

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