François, et al., With the latest fix to gap my sage install hangs with the same results as reported by Marek Kaluba here http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-science/msg_6017d483031b4c2e23d88186066a91eb.xml If I remove the sed line sage_package ${P} \ sed -i "s:cmd += \" -b -p -T\":cmd += \" -b -T\":g" sage/interfaces/gap.py from the sage ebuild then installation proceeds. Steve