Problem while building mt76 package

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Hi,

I try to build OpenWrt for a new device and get an error during build:

make[3]: *** No rule to make target '/home/runner/work/openwrt-build/openwrt-build/openwrt/staging_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/usr/include/mac80211-backport/backport/autoconf.h', needed by '/home/runner/work/openwrt-build/openwrt-build/openwrt/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/linux-mediatek_filogic/mt76-2026.03.19~39c960c3/.configured_b1c6ae92f8e974e60b47b3e5ad3573cc'. Stop.

I tried main and openwrt-25.12, same result. I think it’s unlikely that both branches are currently not buildable. Is there something missing in the build environment?

I’m using ubuntu-latest GitHub runners for the build and installed all required packages according to the wiki instructions. But I see the same error also when building locally on Linux Mint.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Roland

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What are the commands that you're running?

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I clone https://github.com/RolandoMagico/openwrt/tree/E30 and then run:

./scripts/feeds update -a

./scripts/feeds install -a

make menuconfig

There I select my device, additionally enable built-in Luci. Then I run:

make -j4

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I've just successfully built main/HEAD (92c7feebd2647c482a6597e7d799109c5e4aee7d) with mt76 for filogic 830, x86_64/ mt7921au, ipq806x/ mt7921au and mt7621a/ mt7915.

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So it’s working in general. I double checked that all packages are installed. Ubuntu latest in GitHub seems to be 24.04.

Do you know if you had to install any additional packages?

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Can you post the full log somewhere?

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Do you have access to it?

This is the full log of the runner

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We'll never know, unless you build with -j1 V=s.

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The pipeline normally runs make -j4 (until line 4249 in the log), but then make V=s if the previous command failed (after line 4249 in the log).

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Your original error is:

2026-03-29T12:13:58.2774439Z  make[3] -C package/kernel/mt76 compile
2026-03-29T12:13:59.2816698Z     ERROR: package/kernel/mt76 failed to build.
2026-03-29T12:14:24.4330828Z 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

Your verbose call doesn't even reach/ attempt mt76.

Hint: compiling locally (with -j1 V=s) might make things considerably easier.

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It's there if you look further.

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What does your config look like?

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Is the diffconfig sufficient?

CONFIG_TARGET_mediatek=y
CONFIG_TARGET_mediatek_filogic=y
CONFIG_TARGET_mediatek_filogic_DEVICE_dlink_aquila-pro-ai-e30-a1=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_cgi-io=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libiwinfo=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libiwinfo-data=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_liblucihttp=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_liblucihttp-ucode=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-app-firewall=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-app-package-manager=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-base=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-lib-uqr=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-light=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-mod-admin-full=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-mod-network=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-mod-status=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-mod-system=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-proto-ipv6=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-proto-ppp=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-theme-bootstrap=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_rpcd=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_rpcd-mod-file=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_rpcd-mod-iwinfo=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_rpcd-mod-luci=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_rpcd-mod-rrdns=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_rpcd-mod-ucode=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ucode-mod-html=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ucode-mod-log=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ucode-mod-math=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_uhttpd=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_uhttpd-mod-ubus=y

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I did a local build with logging everything to a file. The file is about 13MB, so I cannot upload it to GitHub gist. I just pasted the last (722) lines:

Only strange thing I saw until now:
grep: /home/roland/openwrt/E30/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/linux-mediatek_filogic/mac80211-regular/backports-6.18.7/./Module.symvers: No such file or directory
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Maybe related to this issue?

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Just test it locally with the appropriate logging, your suspicion is unlikely (filogic doesn't have kernel v6.18 yet, I successfully built mt76 for kernel v6.12 on filogic, mt7621, ipq806x and for kernel v6.18 on x86_64).

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Checked the build with the default OpenWrt main repo, it’s working there.

I have to check which change in my branch causes the build to fail.

Thanks for the support.