Failing doctests due to syntax warnings from GAP

[jdemeyer]

On my system, I have this:

sage -t src/sage/categories/finite_monoids.py
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File "src/sage/categories/finite_monoids.py", line 73, in sage.categories.finite_monoids.FiniteMonoids.ParentMethods.nerve
Failed example:
    Sigma2 = groups.permutation.Cyclic(2)
Expected nothing
Got:
    Syntax warning: Unbound global variable in /usr/local/src/sage-config/local/sh\
    are/gap/lib/operdebug.g:46
      PrintTo1(fname, f);
              ^
    Syntax warning: Unbound global variable in /usr/local/src/sage-config/local/sh\
    are/gap/lib/operdebug.g:59
          n := SubstitutionSublist(nams[i],"CategoryCollections","CC");
                                  ^
    Syntax warning: Unbound global variable in /usr/local/src/sage-config/local/sh\
    are/gap/lib/operdebug.g:66
      PrintTo1(fname, f);
              ^
    Syntax warning: Unbound global variable in /usr/local/src/sage-config/local/sh\
    are/gap/pkg/SmallGrp-1.3/read.g:25
            READ_SMALL_FUNCS[s] := LoadFunc(Concatenation("small", String(s)));
                            ^
    Syntax warning: Unbound global variable in /usr/local/src/sage-config/local/sh\
    are/gap/pkg/SmallGrp-1.3/read.g:26
            READ_SMALL_FUNCS[s]( Concatenation( "smlgp", String(s), ".g" ),
                            ^
    Syntax warning: Unbound global variable in /usr/local/src/sage-config/local/sh\
    are/gap/pkg/SmallGrp-1.3/read.g:30
        for i in [ 2 .. Length( SMALL_AVAILABLE_FUNCS ) ] do
                                                      ^
    Syntax warning: Unbound global variable in /usr/local/src/sage-config/local/sh\
    are/gap/pkg/SmallGrp-1.3/read.g:32
            READ_IDLIB_FUNCS[ i ] := LoadFunc(Concatenation("id", String(i)));
                            ^
    Syntax warning: Unbound global variable in /usr/local/src/sage-config/local/sh\
    are/gap/pkg/SmallGrp-1.3/read.g:33
            READ_IDLIB_FUNCS[ i ]( Concatenation( "idgrp", String( i ), ".g" ),
                            ^
    Error, Variable: 'READ_SMALL_FUNCS' must have an assigned value
    Error, was not in any namespace
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Various other doctests fail with the same messages.

[dimpase]

Please specify what Sage version this is and whether you have gap_packages installed.

[jdemeyer]

sgae 8.7.beta0 with gap_packages installed. Reinstalling gap_packages does not help.

I cannot reproduce (yet) this on other systems, this just happens with one Sage installation.

[dimpase]

How about reinstalling gap and gap_packages?

(and making sure old GAP is purged from SAGE_LOCAL - this is supposed to be automatic, but...)

[jdemeyer]

Replying to dimpase:

and making sure old GAP is purged from SAGE_LOCAL - this is supposed to be automatic, but...

If this is required, then that's a bug.

[jdemeyer]

Reinstalling GAP solved the problem.

[dimpase]

reinstalling GAP is not required, but there is no telling about how you mangled your SAGE_LOCAL, so I cannot consider this a bug - surely it should not be a blocker.

I imagine you cannot reproduce it anyway :-)

[embray]

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed (if you don't believe this ticket is appropriate for the Sage 8.8 release please retarget manually)

[embray]

As the Sage-8.8 release milestone is pending, we should delete the sage-8.8 milestone for tickets that are not actively being worked on or that still require significant work to move forward. If you feel that this ticket should be included in the next Sage release at the soonest please set its milestone to the next release milestone (sage-8.9).

[slelievre]

Proposing to close as worksforme since there has been no recent manifestation of this.