Thanks for responding. The output of ./ configure is as follows: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style) checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking dependency style of gcc... none checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for shared library run path origin... done checking for root user... yes configure: error: You cannot build Sage as root, switch to an unprivileged user. (If building in a container, use --enable-build-as-root.)
I understand I cant run make as root but to run configure I need to be root. As for the version, on the Sagemath download it said 9.5 for my version of Linux. Any help is appreciated On Sunday, 16 July 2023 at 19:41:09 UTC+10 David Joyner wrote: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 5:33 AM Tim M <typica...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Good evening all, I am trying to run make but get the following error. >> make build/make/Makefile --stop >> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/macka/Sage/sage-9.5' >> rm -f config.log >> mkdir -p logs/pkgs >> ln -s logs/pkgs/config.log config.log >> >> **************************************************************************** >> error: Sage source tree is unconfigured. Please run "./configure" first. >> note: Type "./configure --help" to see the available configuration >> options. >> >> **************************************************************************** >> make[1]: *** [Makefile:55: build/make/Makefile] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/macka/Sage/sage-9.5' >> make: *** [Makefile:38: base-toolchain] Error 2 >> >> I have run ./configure many times but nothing changes. >> >> > > What is the output of ./configure? > > Note the latest stable version is 10.0, not 9.5. > > > > Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-support...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/c1bee291-ec60-4dd5-a11b-4c99383ba5e5n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/c1bee291-ec60-4dd5-a11b-4c99383ba5e5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/cf56e976-9da2-4a92-a0bf-dd65d51d268fn%40googlegroups.com.
