Zabbix Source Configure bootstrapping makefile error

[markfree]

While trying to compile Zabbix from sources in a new Debian Bullseye installation, I run "./configure" and got the error below.

(...)
config.status: creating man/Makefile
config.status: creating include/config.h
config.status: include/config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: error: in `/root':
config.status: error: Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
for automatic dependency tracking. If GNU make was not used, consider
re-running the configure script with MAKE="gmake" (or whatever is
necessary). You can also try re-running configure with the
'--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build
the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking).
See `config.log' for more details

There is no "config.log" whitin /zabbix-5.4.8/ folder to see more details.

I'm not sure what it means so I didn't go forward.
Any idea?

[tim.mooney]

config.status: error: in `/root':

Never configure or compile as root. Use a normal, non-privileged account for those steps. Only use root privileges when they are required.

Make certain you haven't filled the / volume with the extracted source code and the byproducts of running configure.

[markfree]

Even with a different user, I'm unable to configure Zabbix.

config.status: creating man/Makefile
config.status: creating include/config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: error: in `/home/dan':
config.status: error: Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
for automatic dependency tracking. If GNU make was not used, consider
re-running the configure script with MAKE="gmake" (or whatever is
necessary). You can also try re-running configure with the
'--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build
the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking).
See `config.log' for more details

I've downloaded and extracted everything within the user's home directory.

wget -nc -O ~/zabbix-5.4.8.tar.gz https://cdn.zabbix.com/zabbix/sources/stable/5.4/zabbix-5.4.8.tar.gz
tar --skip-old-files -C ~/ -xzvf ~/zabbix-5.4.8.tar.gz

Yet I get the same error message, just with a different user name.

[markfree]

I guess the issue was not a user privilegde related.
I didn't look correctly for the "config.log" file. Now I've found it.

Actually, "make" (or "build-essential") was absent in my installation, thus causing the issue.

After installing it "./configure" went on.

Thanks a lot guys.