./configure fails

[Philippe Delavalade]

Hi.

I can't configure sage-10.8 (obtained as a tarball).

As said in README.md I ran
make configure
changed PATH,
and ran
./configure \
--disable-notebook --disable-doc --disable-r --with-system-python3=no

I obtained an error:
real_configure: error: Package directory missing. Re-run bootstrap.

When doing another
make configure
I get as the first time
make: « configure » est à jour. (it's OK)

I attach config.log

Thanks for help.

--
Philippe

[Dima Pasechnik]

This looks very similar to https://groups.google.com/g/sage-support/c/8HrhbwIveJg/m/kODZ4IIEEAAJ

where a Python module we presume installed was not installed on the system, resulting in the same cryptic error.

To copy-paste from there:

Your system python has a broken, or missing, urllib.

> ImportError: No module named request

just above

> real_configure:98992: error: Package directory missing. Re-run bootstrap.

(this error message is likely misleading)

Hopefully, installing urllib will get you through this one.

By the way, can you install python3.12 or later (with the necessary for
development packages)?
Then you can pass it to ./configure in --with-python= option.

Or, even better, switch to using python3.12 or newer as the system Python?
We don't support python3.11 (which you have as /usr/bin/python3) anymore.

Theoretically, Sage would be capable of builing a suitable
Python, but practically this is mostly broken.