I just downloaded the source of sage 4.1 from sagemath.org, and tried to build it (using make). It failed.
Here are some relevant parts of the install.log building 'dbm' extension gcc -pthread -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall - Wstrict-prototypes -DHAVE_GDBM_NDBM_H -I. -I/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/ spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p1/src/./Include -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/ east/u/victor/sage-4.1/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/east/u/ victor/sage-4.1/spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p1/src/Include -I/east/u/ victor/sage-4.1/spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p1/src -c /east/u/victor/ sage-4.1/spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p1/src/Modules/dbmmodule.c -o build/ temp.linux-i686-2.6/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p1/ src/Modules/dbmmodule.o gcc -pthread -shared -L/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/local/lib -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/local/include build/temp.linux- i686-2.6/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p1/src/Modules/ dbmmodule.o -L/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib - lgdbm -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/dbm.so *** WARNING: renaming "dbm" since importing it failed: build/lib.linux- i686-2.6/dbm.so: undefined symbol: dbm_firstkey ... gcc -pthread -shared -L/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/local/lib -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/local/include build/temp.linux- i686-2.6/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p1/src/Modules/ dbmmodule.o -L/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib - lgdbm -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/dbm.so *** WARNING: renaming "dbm" since importing it failed: build/lib.linux- i686-2.6/dbm.so: undefined symbol: dbm_firstkey Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: bsddb185 sunaudiodev To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name. Failed to build these modules: dbm Sleeping for three seconds before testing python Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named hashlib hashlib module failed to import real 3m59.578s user 1m45.004s sys 0m35.585s sage: An error occurred while installing python-2.6.2.p1 Please email sage-devel http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel explaining the problem and send the relevant part of of /east/u/victor/sage-4.1/install.log. Describe your computer, operating system, etc. If you want to try to fix the problem, yourself *don't* just cd to /east/u/victor/sage-4.1/spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p1 and type 'make'. Instead type "/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/sage -sh" in order to set all environment variables correctly, then cd to /east/u/victor/sage-4.1/spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p1 (When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the subshell.) make[1]: *** [installed/python-2.6.2.p1] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/east/u/victor/sage-4.1/spkg' real 31m0.016s user 15m22.321s sys 4m43.551s Error building Sage. ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---