Sorry for not seeing the other messages in this thread before my
previous post; SAGE_BINARY_BUILD is indeed the environment variable
that does the trick.

-Niles


On Sep 24, 11:11 am, Niles Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, according to my install log I had the same problem; I was fooled
> by the fact that sage started up fine.  But now I think I have a
> solution:
>
> I got curious about what PIL is, and while googling I came across this
> nice page
>
> http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html
>
> which lists a lot (maybe all?) of the environment variables sage
> listens to; there are two for PIL, one disabling TK and the other
> telling PIL to use sage's version of some libraries, instead of system
> defaults.  I tried them both, and sage seemed to finish building fine.
> . . . and now it has finished ptestlong, passing all tests :)
>
> -Niles
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Minh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Niles,
>
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Niles <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Is there something easy I "forgot" to do?
>
> > I couldn't even get Sage to compile successfully on that machine.
> > Doing a serial compilation with
>
> > $ make
>
> > resulted in
>
> > /usr/local/lib/libpython2.6.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> > Error building PIL: 'Error installing PIL'
>
> > real    0m10.449s
> > user    0m8.218s
> > sys     0m2.186s
> > sage: An error occurred while installing pil-1.1.6.p2
>
> > --
> > Regards
> > Minh Van Nguyen

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