Ok so this is not the problem I was referring which was "gf2x failed to 
correctly detect sse2 support and so tried to use sse2 instructions on a 
cpu which did not support them and so failed".
You're CPU obviously supports SSE2.

On Sunday, October 13, 2013 7:26:35 PM UTC+2, Dr David Kirkby wrote:
>
> The CPU is an Intel Xeon W3580. 
>
>
> http://ark.intel.com/products/39723/Intel-Xeon-Processor-W3580-8M-Cache-3_33-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI
>  
>
> it says there "Instruction Set Extensions SSE4.2" 
>
> The configure script for the program says 
>
> checking size of unsigned long... 4 
> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 can compile and run sse-2 code... yes 
> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 can compile pclmulqdq and if it is 
> supported by the hardware... no 
> configure: using ABI="default" 
> configure:       CC="gcc -std=gnu99" 
> configure:       CFLAGS="-g -O4 -Wall -W" 
> configure:       CPPFLAGS="" 
> configure:       hwdir="x86_sse2" 
> checking the number of bits in an unsigned long... configure: error: 
> test program failed 
>
>
> so seems to indicate it has found SSE2 support. Am I missing 
> something, or is it odd the fact the program has found out the size of 
> an unsigned long is 4 bytes, then wants to see how many bits it is? 
>
> I stuck the config.log here 
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15273 
>
> it is from the original source code. 
>
> If you want to play with it, I can create you an account on this machine. 
>
> Dave 
>
> On 13 October 2013 15:54, Jean-Pierre Flori <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > By any chance, does your hardware does not support SSE2? 
> > We had trouble with that recently. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday, October 13, 2013 4:52:39 PM UTC+2, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Could you post config.log from gf2xx build directory please? 
> >> 
> >> On Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:06:32 AM UTC+2, Dr David Kirkby wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> drkirkby@hawk:~/unsets/sage-5.13.beta0$ ./sage -i gf2x-1.1.p0 
> >>> This looks like the first time you are running Sage. 
> >>> Updating various hardcoded paths... 
> >>> (Please wait at most a few minutes.) 
> >>> DO NOT INTERRUPT THIS. 
> >>> Done updating paths. 
> >>> Found package gf2x-1.1.p0 in spkg/standard/gf2x-1.1.p0.spkg 
> >>> gf2x-1.1.p0 
> >>> ==================================================== 
> >>> Extracting package 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> /export/home/drkirkby/unsets/sage-5.13.beta0/spkg/standard/gf2x-1.1.p0.spkg 
> >>> -rw-r--r--   1 drkirkby staff     408440 Aug 20 09:05 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> /export/home/drkirkby/unsets/sage-5.13.beta0/spkg/standard/gf2x-1.1.p0.spkg 
> >>> Finished extraction 
> >>> **************************************************** 
> >>> Host system: 
> >>> SunOS hawk 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc 
> >>> **************************************************** 
> >>> C compiler: gcc 
> >>> C compiler version: 
> >>> Using built-in specs. 
> >>> COLLECT_GCC=gcc 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/export/home/drkirkby/unsets/sage-5.13.beta0/local/libexec/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.11/4.7.3/lto-wrapper
>  
>
> >>> Target: i386-pc-solaris2.11 
> >>> Configured with: ../src/configure 
> >>> --prefix=/export/home/drkirkby/unsets/sage-5.13.beta0/local 
> >>> --with-local-prefix=/export/home/drkirkby/unsets/sage-5.13.beta0/local 
> >>> --with-gmp=/export/home/drkirkby/unsets/sage-5.13.beta0/local 
> >>> --with-mpfr=/export/home/drkirkby/unsets/sage-5.13.beta0/local 
> >>> --with-mpc=/export/home/drkirkby/unsets/sage-5.13.beta0/local 
> >>> --with-system-zlib --disable-multilib --disable-nls 
> >>> Thread model: posix 
> >>> gcc version 4.7.3 (GCC) 
> >>> **************************************************** 
> >>> patching file Makefile.am 
> >>> patching file Makefile.in 
> >>> Configuring gf2x. 
> >>> checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 
> >>> checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 
> >>> checking target system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 
> >>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c 
> >>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes 
> >>> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... config/install-sh -c -d 
> >>> checking for gawk... gawk 
> >>> checking whether make -j12 sets $(MAKE)... yes 
> >>> checking how to print strings... print -r 
> >>> checking for style of include used by make -j12... GNU 
> >>> checking for gcc... gcc 
> >>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes 
> >>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out 
> >>> checking for suffix of executables... 
> >>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no 
> >>> checking for suffix of object files... o 
> >>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes 
> >>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes 
> >>> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed 
> >>> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 
> >>> checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/gsed 
> >>> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/ggrep 
> >>> checking for egrep... /usr/bin/ggrep -E 
> >>> checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/ggrep -F 
> >>> checking for ld used by gcc... ld 
> >>> checking if the linker (ld) is GNU ld... no 
> >>> checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -p 
> >>> checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -p) interface... BSD nm 
> >>> checking whether ln -s works... yes 
> >>> checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 786240 
> >>> checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes 
> >>> checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes 
> >>> checking how to convert i386-pc-solaris2.11 file names to 
> >>> i386-pc-solaris2.11 format... func_convert_file_noop 
> >>> checking how to convert i386-pc-solaris2.11 file names to toolchain 
> >>> format... func_convert_file_noop 
> >>> checking for ld option to reload object files... -r 
> >>> checking for objdump... no 
> >>> checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all 
> >>> checking for dlltool... no 
> >>> checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... print -r -- 
> >>> checking for archiver @FILE support... no 
> >>> checking for strip... strip 
> >>> checking for ranlib... ranlib 
> >>> checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -p output from gcc object... ok 
> >>> checking for sysroot... no 
> >>> checking for mt... mt 
> >>> checking if mt is a manifest tool... no 
> >>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... cpp 
> >>> checking for ANSI C header files... yes 
> >>> checking for sys/types.h... yes 
> >>> checking for sys/stat.h... yes 
> >>> checking for stdlib.h... yes 
> >>> checking for string.h... yes 
> >>> checking for memory.h... yes 
> >>> checking for strings.h... yes 
> >>> checking for inttypes.h... yes 
> >>> checking for stdint.h... yes 
> >>> checking for unistd.h... yes 
> >>> checking for dlfcn.h... yes 
> >>> checking for objdir... .libs 
> >>> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no 
> >>> checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC 
> >>> checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes 
> >>> checking if gcc static flag -static works... no 
> >>> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes 
> >>> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes 
> >>> checking whether the gcc linker (ld) supports shared libraries... yes 
> >>> checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no 
> >>> checking dynamic linker characteristics... solaris2.11 ld.so 
> >>> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate 
> >>> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... no 
> >>> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes 
> >>> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes 
> >>> checking whether to build static libraries... yes 
> >>> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc 
> >>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes 
> >>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes 
> >>> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed 
> >>> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 
> >>> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes 
> >>> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes 
> >>> checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 
> >>> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E 
> >>> checking for ld used by g++... ld 
> >>> checking if the linker (ld) is GNU ld... no 
> >>> checking whether the g++ linker (ld) supports shared libraries... yes 
> >>> checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC 
> >>> checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes 
> >>> checking if g++ static flag -static works... no 
> >>> checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes 
> >>> checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes 
> >>> checking whether the g++ linker (ld) supports shared libraries... yes 
> >>> checking dynamic linker characteristics... solaris2.11 ld.so 
> >>> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate 
> >>> checking warning verbosity option... -Wall -W for C++ -Wall -W for C 
> >>> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99 
> >>> checking build system compiler gcc -std=gnu99... yes 
> >>> checking for build system executable suffix... 
> >>> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 and cc understand -c and -o 
> together... 
> >>> yes 
> >>> checking size of unsigned long... 4 
> >>> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 can compile and run sse-2 code... yes 
> >>> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 can compile pclmulqdq and if it is 
> >>> supported by the hardware... no 
> >>> configure: using ABI="default" 
> >>> configure:       CC="gcc -std=gnu99" 
> >>> configure:       CFLAGS="-O2 -g  -Wall -W" 
> >>> configure:       CPPFLAGS="" 
> >>> configure:       hwdir="x86_sse2" 
> >>> checking the number of bits in an unsigned long... configure: error: 
> >>> test program failed 
> >>> Error: Failed to configure gf2x. 
> >>> 
> >>> real    0m3.132s 
> >>> user    0m0.990s 
> >>> sys    0m1.043s 
> >>> 
> ************************************************************************ 
> >>> Error installing package gf2x-1.1.p0 
> >>> 
> ************************************************************************ 
> >>> 
> >>> So I guess whoever wrote the bit of code for testing the number of 
> >>> bits in an unsigned long, had made an error. An upstream issue? 
> >>> 
> >>> Dave 
> > 
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