thanks, I compiled from source and it fixed the problem on 18.  I’d like to 
migrate this system to 20 but it would be a ton of work.

Regards,

Jerry

> On Mar 29, 2021, at 5:52 AM, Salvador Abreu <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> that bug is fixed in the current distribution, e.g. package version 1.4.5.0-3
> it's in the current LTS (20.4)
> 
> best,
> -spa
> 
>> On 26 Mar 2021, at 07:56, Paulo Moura <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> The Ubuntu .deb package is broken. You need to compile and install GNU 
>> Prolog from sources.
>> 
>>> On 25 Mar 2021, at 21:25, Jerry Hancock <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,  
>>> 
>>> Please excuse me for asking about something so old.  I installed gnu-prolog 
>>> 1.4.5 on ubuntu server 18.04.  The underlying hardware is an HP dl380 with 
>>> at least 24 cores.  I had some code that runs perfectly but slowly on other 
>>> servers so I thought I would try my cloud server.
>>> 
>>> The test code is simple and instantiated in sit3.pl:
>>> 
>>> c(blue).
>>> c(green).
>>> 
>>> sit3(X):-c(X).
>>> 
>>> On my other installations, the first solution X=blue is returned as 
>>> expected..  On the ubuntu server 18.04 , I get an error, "uncaught 
>>> exception error(existence_error(procedure,c/0),sit3/0) “ implying that c/0 
>>> doesn’t exist but I’m not calling c/0 I’m calling c/1 as below:
>>> 
>>> {trace}
>>> | ?- sit3(X).
>>>     1    1  Call: sit3(_24) ? 
>>>     2    2  Call: c ? 
>>>     2    2  Exception: c ? 
>>>     1    1  Exception: sit3(_24) ? 
>>> uncaught exception: error(existence_error(procedure,c/0),sit3/0)
>>> {trace}
>>> | ?- 
>>> 
>>> If I assert the clauses from the terminal, all is well.
>>> 
>>> If I run c(X), trace returns:
>>> 
>>> | ?- c(X).
>>>     1    1  Call: c(_24) ? 
>>>     1    1  Exit: c(blue) ? 
>>> 
>>> X = blue ? 
>>> 
>>> Or 
>>> 
>>> | ?- asserta(cc(blue)).
>>> 
>>> yes
>>> | ?- asserta(cc(green)).
>>> 
>>> yes
>>> | ?- asserta((sit33(X):-cc(X))).
>>> 
>>> yes
>>> | ?- sit33(X).
>>> 
>>> X = green ? 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is a very simple example that should work.  I’ve been working with 
>>> prolog since the late 80’s and unless there is an ini file that is note 
>>> allowing the clauses to be added correctly, I could't find it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
> 

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