I've never seen this. Why do you invoke bootstrap differently from configure?
Do you use a non-standard shell (bash or zsh, or perhaps ksh, will
work.  csh probably not)?

How about running

./bootstrap
./configure

?

On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM American Citizen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to install sage v10.8 using github
>
> Here's the following commands on my OpenSuse Leap 15.5 OS
>
> % git clone https://github.com/sagemath/sage.git
> % mv sage sage-10.8
> % cd sage-10.8
> % bash bootstrap
> % ./configure | tee config.log
>
> configure failed with missing directory and told me to run bootstrap again
>
> % bash bootstrap
> %./configure
>
> And the same failure occurs again. This is a show stopper. How can this be 
> fixed?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Checking whether SageMath should install SPKG zeromq...
> checking whether any of gcc is installed as or will be installed as SPKG... no
> checking for zmq.h... yes
> checking for ZMQ version >= 4.2.5... no valid ZMQ version was found
> real_configure: no suitable system package found for SPKG zeromq
> ## ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ##
> ## Build status for each package:                                          ##
> ## ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ##
> real_configure: error: Package directory missing. Re-run bootstrap.
>
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