Problem during my image build

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hi,

I just enter ''make'' in terminal and I got that error, what can I do, it is my first try.. thanks

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/james/openwrt/git/openwrt/scripts/config'
cc -O2   -c -o conf.o conf.c
cc   conf.o confdata.o expr.o lexer.lex.o parser.tab.o preprocess.o symbol.o util.o   -o conf
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/james/openwrt/git/openwrt/scripts/config'
time: target/linux/prereq#0.36#0.16#0.48
 make[1] world
 make[2] tools/compile
 make[3] -C tools/flock compile
 make[3] -C tools/xz compile
 make[3] -C tools/sed compile
 make[3] -C tools/patch compile
 make[3] -C tools/tar compile
    ERROR: tools/tar failed to build.
make -r world: build failed. Please re-run make with -j1 V=s or V=sc for a higher verbosity level to see what's going on
make: *** [/home/james/openwrt/git/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:234: world] Error 1

I dont want to touch anything after that error, Im waiting :wink:

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Did you do this? It can often reveal a lot more info about what might be wrong.

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tar usually errors out if you're running your build as root, don't do that EVER.

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nope, I do ? make with whcich option?

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yes I was as ''root'
Do i have to restart?

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this is the command.

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Yes, you've messed up the access permissions in your git clone, delete and start over from scratch - you don't need root for compiling (nor cloning the git tree) OpenWrt at all.

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ok I try that
thanks

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just deleting all my files in my folders or I need to do some things via terminal?
im on debian linux (new in linux, new as firmware builder ) but I love it

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The newly created openwrt directory (which you got by running git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git) and everything below it needs to be deleted.

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btw, a question, I checked some tutos here and there and pretty often, I see that as command:

apt-get install subversion build-essential libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk git ccache gettext libssl-dev xsltproc file

 apt-get install subversion build-essential libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex quilt
git-core

we need that? , I did not see it in open wrt docs?

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Appears so.

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Those are general build dependencies, expected to be present on the host (to be installed once). The former example appear to be more up to date than the lower (git-core has been renamed to just git quite a while ago, although ccache would be optional at best).

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I'm building from Debian, I have one laptop on debian and the other one on linux mint.
What would be your choice on the link gave from @anomeome ? Or I can take the one I wrote ?
thanks

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Any semi-contemporary general purpose distribution should work; the project's official buildbots are running Debian, but that is not mandatory (pick the faster system, which has at least 15 GB free space).

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And what about those commands and do we need to use it and when on the process?


make clean

make dirclean

make distclean
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Different escalation steps of cleaning up (removing) binary build artifacts after a build (respectively after pulling in larger code changes in the future).

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Ok so I don't really need to do that.
But if not, just before " make" ?

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Doing "make clean" makes sense before a build. I always do that.
It only cleans the build artefacts, but does not touch the toolchain.

In practice "make dirclean" is only needed when there are complex changes in the toolchain/ or tools/
Or you want to re-build the toolchain.

And I never use make distclean. It would just delete also the download source tar.xz packages, which makes no sense to me.

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Also, i just saw about linksys wrt3200 that there are 2 versions, rango wrt 3200 and the other wrt3200.
So I'm uploading my building image right now and i chose in "" make menu config" wrt3200 and rango was also in the list...
Do I need to restart again all my build?

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