There are two levels of problems
1. We can't include 64 bit compilers because we have no binaries that
work for them.
2. The ar extracting hack is because we are tricking numpy's
distutils into doing what we want.
(More detailed explanation: Numpy's distutils has python classes for
different
Workaround for those who want to get a little further:
tar -xf sage-2.7.tar
cd sage-2.7
mkdir -p spkg/installed
touch spkg/installed/f2c-1
touch spkg/installed/cvxopt-0.8.2
touch spkg/installed/gfortran-20070719
Now ensure that you have a symlink to g77 in your path called
"gfortran"
make
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