Error building Sage using WSL

[Kyrie]

Hi,

I'm trying to build SageMath on my machine -- 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 (build 22631.4317) -- using WSL. 

I'm following the instructions at https://github.com/sagemath/sage/#readme. When I get to step 14 and run "make", I get

"Error building Sage.
The following package(s) may have failed to build (not necessarily
during this run of 'make all-start'):
* package:         python3-3.12.4
  last build time: Nov 10 19:02

  log file:        /home/kyrie/sage/sage/logs/pkgs/python3-3.12.4.log"

The log file is attached.

When I run "sudo apt-get install python3 libpython3-dev python3-setuptools       python3-venv" again, I get

"python3 is already the newest version (3.12.3-0ubuntu2).
libpython3-dev is already the newest version (3.12.3-0ubuntu2).
python3-setuptools is already the newest version (68.1.2-2ubuntu1.1).
python3-venv is already the newest version (3.12.3-0ubuntu2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded."

I had Python on my machine before adding WSL for the purpose of Sage. So I also thought to look back at the environment variables PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, and LDFLAGS to verify that there are no items beginning with "/mnt/c" as in Step 8 of the ReadMe.

I'm deeply grateful for any suggestions for how else to troubleshoot / how to get Sage to build!

With gratitude,

Kyrie

[Dima Pasechnik]

Hello,
the easiest in your case would be to use the Python you already have
installed in WSL.
In principle, the installation (./configure script) should be able to
detect it, and use it, instead of trying to build Python.
Please post config.log (in the main Sage directory, where you run make
etc) - then we can see what's up with it.

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[Kyrie]

Hi,

Thank you for the suggestion. I've attached the config.log.

[Dima Pasechnik]

Hi,

you are using a python from miniforge,
not the system python.

If you really want to using miniforge (i.e. conda), it needs a special treatment.

You cannot freely mix system packages and conda, you either activate a conda environment and do everything there.

Otherwise, make sure that conda doesn't interfere. (make sure there is nothing related to  it in PATH).

HTH,
Dima

[Dima Pasechnik]

Hi,
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 10:36:24AM -0500, Kairi Black wrote:
>
> Thank you for the help/suggestions. I am still receiving a Python build
> error when running "make".

Your ./configure run ended with an error, and you didn't notice.
Namely, it complained that you don't have m4 installed (previously you
had one in conda, I suppose).
No wonder you then get strange errors trying to run make.

Please remove everything starting from /usr/local/ from your PATH
(from the PATH in for the WSL prompt you will build and run Sage)

Please run (in the WSL prompt)
the following, as specified in https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html#sec-installation-from-sources

make distclean # to start from scratch

sudo apt-get install bc binutils bzip2 ca-certificates cliquer cmake curl \
ecl eclib-tools fflas-ffpack g++ gap gcc gengetopt gfan gfortran \
glpk-utils gmp-ecm lcalc libatomic-ops-dev libboost-dev \
libbraiding-dev libbrial-dev libbrial-groebner-dev libbz2-dev \
libcdd-dev libcdd-tools libcliquer-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libec-dev \
libecm-dev libffi-dev libflint-dev libfplll-dev libfreetype-dev \
libgap-dev libgc-dev libgd-dev libgf2x-dev libgiac-dev libgivaro-dev \
libglpk-dev libgmp-dev libgsl-dev libhomfly-dev libiml-dev \
liblfunction-dev liblinbox-dev liblrcalc-dev liblzma-dev libm4ri-dev \
libm4rie-dev libmpc-dev libmpfi-dev libmpfr-dev libncurses5-dev \
libntl-dev libopenblas-dev libpari-dev libplanarity-dev libppl-dev \
libprimecount-dev libprimesieve-dev libpython3-dev libqhull-dev \
libreadline-dev librw-dev libsingular4-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev \
libsuitesparse-dev libsymmetrica2-dev libz-dev libzmq3-dev m4 make \
maxima maxima-sage meson nauty ninja-build openssl palp pari-doc \
pari-elldata pari-galdata pari-galpol pari-gp2c pari-seadata patch \
patchelf perl pkg-config planarity ppl-dev python3 python3-setuptools \
python3-venv qhull-bin singular singular-doc sqlite3 sympow tachyon \
tar texinfo tox xcas xz-utils

(some of these are already installed, but not all). Then run


./configure
make

>
> I tried the following:
>
> 1. Remove any references to miniforge from my PATH variable. (get Python
> build error when run "make")
> 2. Uninstall miniforge using the instructions at
> https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge. (get Python build error when run
> "make")
> 3. Uninstall and reinstall Python3.12 in WSL using
> https://gist.github.com/zhensongren/811dcf2471f663ed3148a272f1faa957, then
> running
>
> sudo apt-get install libpython3-dev python3-setuptools python3-venv
>
> as in https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/python3.html. (Then
> still get Python build error when run "make" and "configure")
>
> I've attached the python build log, and the config log.
>
> I'm grateful for your patience with me (a person new to Linux, who is using
> WSL for the first time in an effort to use Sage on my Windows machine).
>
> And appreciative of any additional recommendations or clarifications on
> what isn't working!
>
> -Kyrie