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2 Installation of the orb-Package

To install this package just extract the package's archive file to the GAP pkg directory.

By default the orb package is not automatically loaded by GAP when it is installed. You must load the package with LoadPackage("orb"); before its functions become available.

As of version 3.0, the orb package has a GAP kernel component which should be compiled. This component does not actually contain new functionality but will improve the performance of AVL trees and hash tables significantly since many core routines are implemented in the C language at kernel level.

To compile the C part of the package do (in the pkg directory)

    cd orb
    ./configure
    make

If you installed the package in another pkg directory than the standard pkg directory in your GAP 4 installation, then you have to do two things. Firstly during compilation you have to use the option --with-gaproot=PATH of the configure script where PATH is a path to the main GAP root directory (if not given the default ../.. is assumed).

Secondly you have to specify the path to the directory containing your pkg directory to GAP's list of directories. This can be done by starting GAP with the -l command line option followed by the name of the directory and a semicolon. Then your directory is prepended to the list of directories searched. Otherwise the package is not found by GAP. Of course, you can add this option to your GAP startup script.

2.1 Recompiling the documentation

Recompiling the documentation is possible by the command gap makedoc.g in the orb directory. But this should not be necessary.

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