./config.guess should give the triple k8-unknown-linux-gnu
and your getting amd64-unknown-linux-gnu mpir-1.2.2 fixes this for BSD64 , and I hope your gentoo , do you use a shell that is not bash ? Thanks Jason On Sunday 02 August 2009 13:38:54 timcera wrote: > Thanks for your help. I now have Sage compiled and installed. I do > have a different problem - but this one anyway is solved. > > If I just used 'configure' the install system guessed 'ABI=amd64'. > From the clue above I instead used 'configure ABI=64' and it worked. > > Here is my cpuinfo if it might prove useful in figuring out why the > install guessed 'amd64' instead of '64'. > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 15 > model : 4 > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ > stepping : 10 > cpu MHz : 800.000 > cache size : 1024 KB > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 1 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm > 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good > bogomips : 1596.07 > TLB size : 1024 4K pages > clflush size : 64 > cache_alignment : 64 > address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual > power management: ts fid vid ttp > > I thought 'uname -a' might be helpful... > Linux wanderer2 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #2 Sat Jul 4 00:31:03 EDT 2009 x86_64 > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---