Executing
$ sage -upgrade
.....does most things until cremona lib compilation....
.....extracting cremona...
cremona-20071219.p1/spkg-install
Finished extraction
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Host system
uname -a:
Linux deb40 2.6.18-5-486 #1 Thu Aug 30 01:46:45 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/
Linux
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GCC Version
gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c+
+,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-
system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-
threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --with-
tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
....compiles most libraries...
g++ -fPIC --shared libjcntl.a interface_n.o arith_n.o marith_n.o
gpslave_n.o conic_n.o legendre_n.o unimod_n.o quadratic_n.o cubic_n.o
illl_n.o hilbert_n.o parifact_n.o compproc_n.o kbessel_n.o vector_n.o
matrix_n.o subspace_n.o mvector_n.o mmatrix_n.o msubspace_n.o
xsplit2_n.o timer_n.o svector_n.o smatrix_n.o smatrix_elim_n.o
polys_n.o realroots_n.o -o libjcntl.so -L/home/kks/sage-2.8.13-i686-
Linux/local/lib -lntl -lgmp -lpari -lpari -L/home/kks/sage-2.8.13-i686-
Linux/local/lib -L/home/kks/sage-2.8.13-i686-Linux/local/lib -lntl -
lgmp -lpari -lm
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libjcntl.so] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kks/sage-2.8.13-i686-Linux/spkg/
build/cremona-20071219.p1/src/procs'
make[1]: *** [so] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kks/sage-2.8.13-i686-Linux/spkg/
build/cremona-20071219.p1/src'
Error building cremona shared libraries
sage: An error occurred while installing cremona-20071219.p1
Please email sage-devel
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
---etc....
Thanks for your help.