I get the error reported at http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18293 while upgrading SageMath in Ubuntu-14.04. I am forced to go back to version 6.2 as upgrading from 6.8, 6.7, 6.4 ended up with the libgd-2.1.1.p0 error and no usable Sage.

I am unable to find resolution of the http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18293 error in the repositories. What is the present status of upgrading Sage in this context?

mpir-2.4.0.p6

Extracting package /usr/local/sage-5.2/spkg/standard/mpir-2.4.0.p6.spkg -rw-r--r-- 1 1237 1237 3844522 Jul 25 14:46 /usr/local/sage-5.2/spkg/standard/mpir-2.4.0.p6.spkg Finished extraction

Host system: Linux knoppixmath 2.6.37 #5 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 16 12:04:25 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

C compiler: gcc C compiler version: Using built-in specs. Target: i486-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.4.5-8' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-systError installing package mpir-2.4.0.p6em-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-targets=all --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=i486-linux-gnu --host=i486-linux-gnu --target=i486-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)

configure: error: ABI=32 is not among the following valid choices: standard Error configuring MPIR (with CFLAGS unset)