GAP not starting when installed via GAP.jl

[markuslh]

Setting: Ubuntu in WSL, the packages in https://oscar.computeralgebra.de/install/ are all installed. GAP.jl is installed in Julia as dev-package.

GAP runs when called from Julia, however, I cannot get GAP to work from bash.

markus@XXX:~/.julia/dev/GAP$ ./gap.sh
ERROR: could not load library "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/../bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/julia/sys.so"
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/../bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/julia/sys.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I get the same errors when calling the GAP-binary directly.

[fingolfin]

@markuslh huh, I never noticed this report before :-(. So sorry, my apologies.

Is this still something that is relevant for you? I can't reproduce it. I'd need to know some more information, such as

• the precise Ubuntu version
• which Julia version?
• where is Julia installed, (type julia should give that info)
• which GAP.jl version?
• how did you install GAP.jl? When you say "as dev-package", do you mean you used ] dev . in a clone of GAP.jl? If so, why not just ] add GAP instead?

The message you post involves the path /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/../bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/julia/sys.so which simplifies to /usr/lib/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/julia/sys.so which indeed looks suspiciously wrong. But w/o more info it's hard to say what's going on.