gambit does not build (sage 8.2.beta6)

[Vincent Delecroix]

Dear all,

The optional package gambit does not build on my machine (the quasar
patchbot). See log attached.

Best
Vincent

[kcrisman]

On Monday, February 19, 2018 at 2:29:18 AM UTC-5, vdelecroix wrote:

Dear all,

The optional package gambit does not build on my machine (the quasar
patchbot). See log attached.

I've emailed one of the people responsible for initially getting gambit in Sage; hopefully it's a minor issue to fix, or unique to some unusual Python setup. 

[Travis Scrimshaw]

I get the same on my Ubuntu desktop with essentially the same log.

Best,
Travis

[Jeroen Demeyer]

If somebody wants to fix this, you should try pip. gambit is currently
one of the few Python packages that are installed using the classical
setup.py script instead of pip.

Changing to pip is an obvious thing to do anyway and it might even fix
the problem.

[Matthias Koeppe]

See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21864

[Jeroen Demeyer]

On 2018-02-23 02:28, Matthias Koeppe wrote:
> See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21864

Interesting. The upstream issue is also related to header files. It
might be that the way how we worked around the upstream issue no longer
works with the new build system changes in Sage.

[Dima Pasechnik]

the attached log  points out at a non-existent gambit/gambit.h.

How about adding it as a link to libgambit/gambit.h ?

 

[Samuel Lelievre]

Fri 2018-02-23 08:27:23 UTC, Jeroen Demeyer:

Dear sage-devel,

I emailed the maintainer of Gambit to try and raise the priority of

Gambit issue #207 which seems to prevent making it pip-installable:

    https://github.com/gambitproject/gambit/issues/207

I said making Gambit pip-installable would help with its integration

in SageMath, as more and more of Sage's standard or optional packages

are being made pip-installed, Gambit having been left out for now at:

    Sage #21864: Use pip install for more packages

    https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21864

I also pointed to the present sage-devel discussion:

    sage-devel discussion: gambit does not build (sage 8.2.beta6)

    https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/tmrbcJDihRo/discussion

The maintainer of Gambit does "not have time nor resource to deal with

packaging at the moment", but "would certainly gladly accept patches",

saying "it is a very straightforward project to restructure the build

suitably, simply one that I do not have the time to do myself".

So if anyone knows what to do and can submit a patch upstream, that

would be wonderful.

Kind regards, Samuel