On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM American Citizen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I used the standard bash shell. As a matter of fact I spent over an hour of
> time downloading files from zeromq website and installing the lib zeromq
> package onto my openSuse Leap 15.5 system after hitting frustrating
> blockages. I can personally vouch that this library is NOW on my system and
> has been successfully installed.
>
> But I keep getting this error message during running ./configure in the root
> directory of sage-10.8
Maybe bootstrap finishes with an error, which you don't see, as you invoke it as
bash bootstrap
and not as
./bootstrap
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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... yes
> real_configure: will use system package and not install SPKG zeromq
> ## ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ##
> ## Build status for each package: ##
> ## ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ##
> real_configure: error: Package directory missing. Re-run bootstrap.
>
> What directory is missing? I can probably install this by hand if necessary
> and rerun ./configure again.
>
> And yes I have run the following 2 command 4 times now
>
> % bash bootstrap
> %./configure
>
> But keep getting aborted by the error message posted above.
>
> I appreciate any help.. as I am mystified as to why I git clone the main
> branch of 10.8 but it won't run.
>
> Randall
>
>
> On Saturday, January 3, 2026 at 5:48:12 PM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> 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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