Found the cause of the error. The environment variable BZIP2 was set by export BZIP2="-9"
in my .profile. According to bzip2's man page this is possible to specify default options, but the bzip's make process does not seem to like that. After "unset BZIP2" the installation ran straight through. Should I file a trac ticket or is this something I should have been aware of when setting the variable? Cheers Konstantin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.