Thanks for all helpful advice! I tried to patch, but still couldn't get past the error. Then I noticed a lovely Sage environment variable and voila! It's building!
So all I did was: export SAGE_INSTALL_GCC=no make That's it! hopefully that will save somebody some time in the future! that is all pam oh yeah: installing on Ubuntu Gnome 16.10. my log was basically identical to the OP. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.