Python-dateutil failed to build

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Hello,

I am having problems building the firmware file. It worked in the past, but when I repeat the same steps now (as far as I can tell, I am following exactly the same procedure), the build frequently fails.

I am using an Ubuntu virtual machine and running the commands listed on the OpenWrt documentation page:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/install-buildsystem

First, I install the required dependencies:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential clang flex bison g++ gawk \
gcc-multilib g++-multilib gettext git libncurses5-dev libssl-dev \
python3-setuptools rsync swig unzip zlib1g-dev file wget

Then I run the following commands:

git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git
git pull
git checkout v22.03.3

./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a

make menuconfig
make -j $(nproc) kernel_menuconfig
make -j $(nproc) defconfig download clean world

This process has worked before and I was able to successfully build a .bin firmware file.

However, when I repeat the same steps now, the build fails most of the time with the following error:

ERROR: package/feeds/packages/python-dateutil failed to build.

Has anyone experienced this issue or knows what might cause it?

Thank you.

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is 4 years old and EOL.

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You need old Ubuntu (contemporary with old OpenWrt) to build ancient packages.

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Thanks for your reply! I’m planning to upgrade to the latest version at some point, but since I have some config files included in the build and it seems they can’t just be reused with the newer OpenWrt version, I’ll postpone the upgrade for now until I have a bit more time to look into it.

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Thanks for your reply. I am using ubuntu v24.04 - it workes with this version. If I build the firmware in a folder e.q. “Version1” it let me build it (I just done that). If I then want another build in folder “Version2” it fails with the error mentioned above.

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That is a mistake on you.

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Could you maybe explain this a bit more in detail? What am I doing wrong here? Thanks

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Isn't the actual error, but the result of something that happened earlier.

Rerun and add -j1 V=sc switches.

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