Good morning,
I'm trying to build openwrt for the first time for a RTL838X device. I'm building on a Debian 12 (bookworm) amd64 system and believe I've installed all the prerequisites that are needed. Every time I try things go well until it tries to do the host compile xzdec where it fails claiming:
/usr/bin/env bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link /home/schallee/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/gcc -pthread -fvisibility=hidden -Wall -Wextra -Wvla -Wc99-c11-compat -Wformat=2 -Winit-self -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wstrict-overflow=3 -Walloc-zero -Wduplicated-cond -Wfloat-equal -Wundef -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wwrite-strings -Wdate-time -Wsign-conversion -Wfloat-conversion -Wlogical-op -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls -O2 -I/home/schallee/openwrt/staging_dir/host/include -no-undefined -version-info 9:6:4 -L/home/schallee/openwrt/staging_dir/host/lib -o liblzma.la -rpath /home/schallee/openwrt/staging_dir/host/lib liblzma_la-tuklib_physmem.lo liblzma_la-tuklib_cpucores.lo liblzma_la-common.lo liblzma_la-block_util.lo liblzma_la-easy_preset.lo liblzma_la-filter_common.lo liblzma_la-hardware_physmem.lo liblzma_la-index.lo liblzma_la-stream_flags_common.lo liblzma_la-string_conversion.lo liblzma_la-vli_size.lo liblzma_la-hardware_cputhreads.lo liblzma_la-outqueue.lo liblzma_la-alone_encoder.lo liblzma_la-block_buffer_encoder.lo liblzma_la-block_encoder.lo liblzma_la-block_header_encoder.lo liblzma_la-easy_buffer_encoder.lo liblzma_la-easy_encoder.lo liblzma_la-easy_encoder_memusage.lo liblzma_la-filter_buffer_encoder.lo liblzma_la-filter_encoder.lo liblzma_la-filter_flags_encoder.lo liblzma_la-index_encoder.lo liblzma_la-stream_buffer_encoder.lo liblzma_la-stream_encoder.lo liblzma_la-stream_flags_encoder.lo liblzma_la-vli_encoder.lo liblzma_la-stream_encoder_mt.lo liblzma_la-microlzma_encoder.lo liblzma_la-alone_decoder.lo liblzma_la-auto_decoder.lo liblzma_la-block_buffer_decoder.lo liblzma_la-block_decoder.lo liblzma_la-block_header_decoder.lo liblzma_la-easy_decoder_memusage.lo liblzma_la-file_info.lo liblzma_la-filter_buffer_decoder.lo liblzma_la-filter_decoder.lo liblzma_la-filter_flags_decoder.lo liblzma_la-index_decoder.lo liblzma_la-index_hash.lo liblzma_la-stream_buffer_decoder.lo liblzma_la-stream_decoder.lo liblzma_la-stream_flags_decoder.lo liblzma_la-vli_decoder.lo liblzma_la-stream_decoder_mt.lo liblzma_la-microlzma_decoder.lo liblzma_la-lzip_decoder.lo liblzma_la-check.lo liblzma_la-crc32_table.lo liblzma_la-crc32_fast.lo liblzma_la-crc64_table.lo liblzma_la-crc64_fast.lo liblzma_la-sha256.lo liblzma_la-lz_encoder.lo liblzma_la-lz_encoder_mf.lo liblzma_la-lz_decoder.lo liblzma_la-lzma_encoder_presets.lo liblzma_la-lzma_encoder.lo liblzma_la-lzma_encoder_optimum_fast.lo liblzma_la-lzma_encoder_optimum_normal.lo liblzma_la-fastpos_table.lo liblzma_la-lzma_decoder.lo liblzma_la-lzma2_encoder.lo liblzma_la-lzma2_decoder.lo liblzma_la-price_table.lo liblzma_la-delta_common.lo liblzma_la-delta_encoder.lo liblzma_la-delta_decoder.lo liblzma_la-simple_coder.lo liblzma_la-simple_encoder.lo liblzma_la-simple_decoder.lo liblzma_la-x86.lo liblzma_la-powerpc.lo liblzma_la-ia64.lo liblzma_la-arm.lo liblzma_la-armthumb.lo liblzma_la-arm64.lo liblzma_la-sparc.lo -lpthread
make[8]: Leaving directory '/home/schallee/openwrt/build_dir/host/xz-5.4.6/src/liblzma'
make[7]: Leaving directory '/home/schallee/openwrt/build_dir/host/xz-5.4.6/src/liblzma'
Making all in xzdec
make[7]: Entering directory '/home/schallee/openwrt/build_dir/host/xz-5.4.6/src/xzdec'
make[7]: *** No rule to make target '../../src/liblzma/liblzma.la', needed by 'xzdec'. Stop.
make[7]: Leaving directory '/home/schallee/openwrt/build_dir/host/xz-5.4.6/src/xzdec'
make[6]: *** [Makefile:426: all-recursive] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/schallee/openwrt/build_dir/host/xz-5.4.6/src'
make[5]: *** [Makefile:621: all-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/schallee/openwrt/build_dir/host/xz-5.4.6'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:490: all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/schallee/openwrt/build_dir/host/xz-5.4.6'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:41: /home/schallee/openwrt/build_dir/host/xz-5.4.6/.built] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/schallee/openwrt/tools/xz'
time: tools/xz/compile#0.24#0.14#0.38
ERROR: tools/xz failed to build.
make[2]: *** [tools/Makefile:232: tools/xz/compile] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/schallee/openwrt'
make[1]: *** [tools/Makefile:228: /home/schallee/openwrt/staging_dir/host/stamp/.tools_compile_yyyynyynnnyyynynyyyyyyynyyynynyynnynnyyyyyynyyyyyyyyyyynynnyyyyynyyy] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/schallee/openwrt'
make: *** [/home/schallee/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:233: world] Error 2
I feel like I'm missing something obvious but I haven't found it yet. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!