Hi, I had the same problem with Sage 5.4 on Mandriva 2010.1. As explained in the post https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/7BpVcXiN9Cg/discussion, the problem arises from the function "time". A workaround is to edit the file $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/bin/sage and to suppress the "time" command in the definition of the function build_sage() (line 650 of the file for Sage 5.4), so that it becomes build_sage() { sage-build "$@" || exit $? } Then, the installation proceeds successfully.
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