Hello, I'm new to the forum and I use OpenWRT on my main router, a Netgear R6260. I was wondering if someone could help me figure out how to get the build system set up, as I have no luck getting it to successfully build past make[3] tools/tar compile. It fails at that step, and I can't figure out why. I've tried using Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS, and Linux Mint 20.1 which is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, both inside a VM with 12GB RAM and 4 vCPUs, and 128GB storage, with well over 3/4 of it available. Any help and feedback is appreciated!
$ make V=s and share your actual error output.
I have the output of make V=s here:
root@owner:~/openwrt# make V=s
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/openwrt'
make[2]: Entering directory '/root/openwrt'
+ mkdir -p /root/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl
+ cd /root/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl
+ mkdir -p bin lib stamp usr/include usr/lib
mkdir -p /root/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/stamp
touch /root/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/.prepared
+ mkdir -p /root/openwrt/staging_dir/host
+ cd /root/openwrt/staging_dir/host
+ mkdir -p bin lib stamp usr/include usr/lib
mkdir -p /root/openwrt/build_dir/host/stamp /root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/include/sys
install -m0644 /root/openwrt/tools/include/*.h /root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/include/
install -m0644 /root/openwrt/tools/include/sys/*.h /root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/include/sys/
ln -snf lib /root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/lib64
touch /root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/.prepared
make[3]: Entering directory '/root/openwrt/tools/flock'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/openwrt/tools/flock'
time: tools/flock/compile#0.05#0.04#0.08
make[3]: Entering directory '/root/openwrt/tools/xz'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/openwrt/tools/xz'
time: tools/xz/compile#0.07#0.04#0.09
make[3]: Entering directory '/root/openwrt/tools/sed'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/openwrt/tools/sed'
time: tools/sed/compile#0.06#0.06#0.10
make[3]: Entering directory '/root/openwrt/tools/patch'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/openwrt/tools/patch'
time: tools/patch/compile#0.06#0.04#0.09
make[3]: Entering directory '/root/openwrt/tools/tar'
(cd /root/openwrt/build_dir/host/tar-1.32/; if [ -x configure ]; then cp -fpR /root/openwrt/scripts/config.{guess,sub} /root/openwrt/build_dir/host/tar-1.32// && CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-O2 -I/root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/include " CXX="g++" CPPFLAGS="-I/root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/include " LDFLAGS="-L/root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/lib " CONFIG_SHELL="/usr/bin/env bash" bash ./configure --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --program-prefix="" --program-suffix="" --prefix=/root/openwrt/staging_dir/host --exec-prefix=/root/openwrt/staging_dir/host --sysconfdir=/root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/etc --localstatedir=/root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/var --sbindir=/root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin --without-posix-acls --without-selinux --without-xattrs --disable-acl --disable-nls ; fi )
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checking whether mknod can create fifo without root privileges... configure: error: in `/root/openwrt/build_dir/host/tar-1.32':
configure: error: you should not run configure as root (set FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment to bypass this check)
See `config.log' for more details
make[3]: *** [Makefile:32: /root/openwrt/build_dir/host/tar-1.32/.configured] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/openwrt/tools/tar'
time: tools/tar/compile#17.89#9.26#29.31
ERROR: tools/tar failed to build.
make[2]: *** [tools/Makefile:158: tools/tar/compile] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/openwrt'
make[1]: *** [tools/Makefile:154: /root/openwrt/staging_dir/host/stamp/.tools_compile_yyynyynnyyynyyyyyynyynyyyyynyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyynynnyyyyyyy] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/openwrt'
make: *** [/root/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:234: world] Error 2
Code boxes are good for pasting longer amounts of build logs, not only do you get a fixed-width/ non-proportional font for free, you also avoid having to scroll the whole thread over pages, but have the content boxed in with its own scroll bars and limited to a workable size.
The error message itself is you in your past, do not try to build OpenWrt as root, ever. No part of cloning the git repo, updating the feeds, configuring the build environment or compiling should ever be done with root capabilities (that includes sudo), it's unnecessary and highly dangerous for your host system integrity. Given that the file access permissions in your existing build-tree are now messed up, it's best to start over again and clone a fresh git checkout -as normal user, without every thinking about sudo- and start from there.
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Alright, I'll give that a shot and see how it goes. I'll update when I test it.
Update: I tried your suggestion of running in the standard user, and so far it seems to be going without a problem. Thanks for your help! I greatly appreciate it.
Update 2: The build process failed much later during the cycle. I'm rerunning it with V=s on this run again to catch any errors, and it may take some time. I figured I'd post this update since it failed merely minutes ago, and I had to run make clean and make dirclean to rebuild everything.
Edit: The reason I had to put errors.txt & output.txt from my last run with owner@owner:~/Documents/openwrt$ make V=s into a 7-zip archive is because I can't post over 8MB of text on here. It would make no sense to do so either, and the output log is over 8MB in size. Inside the archive both files take about 300KB. Here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CG3h2C0VxiUfMmipyMg9U1NG1PrykzwM/view?usp=sharing
I'm bumping the thread to try to get some advice on how to proceed. Thank you in advance for any help.