How to select components when build from source ?

[snowman]

Let's say if I want to remove the following components from the firmware; how does one do that?
Minidlna
Netatalk

The dlna and Apple file server are feature I can live without And those are the 2 things that's currently giving me problem when building firmware from source.

Thanks
Grasshopper

 

[mark0263]

Let's say if I want to remove the following components from the firmware; how does one do that?
Minidlna
Netatalk

The dlna and Apple file server are feature I can live without And those are the 2 things that's currently giving me problem when building firmware from source.

Thanks
Grasshopper

I think you would be better off fixing the build environment instead of trying to remove components.

Using the info from RMerlin's GitHub - https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Compile-Firmware-from-source-using-Ubuntu - I built a Ubuntu 14.04 Server environment yesterday that successfully compiles the latest snapshot without any issues.

I used the delian-build-image script (https://github.com/assarbad/build-asuswrt-merlin) to run the compile. Tried it using both USE_SUDO and without - both ways built fine. To get the Ubuntu 14.04 environment working correctly, I ran "./debian-build-image --prereq" as documented on the build-asuswrt-merlin page.

Once that was complete, running ./debian-build-image AC-RT87U worked like a champ.

Good luck!
Mark

 

[snowman]

Thank you Mark!!
Trying that now.
Did you run apt-get update/upgrade after OS installed?
Could the upgrade might have broke some dependency?

Is this your version of Ubuntu
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64)

This is much harder than I thought lol..

 

[mark0263]

Thank you Mark!!
Trying that now.
Did you run apt-get update/upgrade after OS installed?
Could the upgrade might have broke some dependency?

Is this your version of Ubuntu
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64)

This is much harder than I thought lol..

I built the VM environment using an ISO downloaded from Ubuntu (Ubuntu Server not Workstation) on 3/24/15 and did do a full apt-get update - updating all security items and upgradable components.

My kernel is slightly newer than yours:

Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.16.0-33-generic x86_64)

Building the environment was pretty straight forward - I literally cut / pasted from the build documentation to install the needed packages (including the extra ones need for the x64 environment). Checked out the code, downloaded debian-build-image, ran it with --preg to get the missing components and that was it.

I don't think any of the upgrades caused an issue - I ran a full compile this morning and it built fine. Again, I'm only building for the RT87U - could be one of the other models might have an issue, which one are you building for?

Thanks!
Mark

 

[snowman]

failed at Netatalk again :-(
I am building for rt87u as well.
Let me try to upgrade the kernel so it matches yours.

Did you also performed this section?
Notes for Ubuntu 13.10 and later

 

[mark0263]

failed at Netatalk again :-(
I am building for rt87u as well.
Let me try to upgrade the kernel so it matches yours.

Did you also performed this section?
Notes for Ubuntu 13.10 and later

I only installed the package, I did not do the other steps. Reading the docs on the debian-build-image, it stated "The script takes care of the steps mentioned above for Ubuntu 13.10 and newer." So I didn't run the other commands, I let the debian-build-image script handle it.

Hope this helps!
Mark

 

[snowman]

Thank you for taking the time Mark!!

Upgraded the kernel: <-- this is me grasping for straw
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.16.0-33-generic x86_64)

still failed at netatalk-3.0.5 :-(

configure.ac:59: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LTDL_DLLIB
configure.ac:61: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LTDL_DLSYM_USCORE

don't think install libltdl-dev will help since it should getting it from toolchain?
but giving that a try now.

 

[mark0263]

Thank you for taking the time Mark!!

Upgraded the kernel: <-- this is me grasping for straw
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.16.0-33-generic x86_64)

still failed at netatalk-3.0.5 :-(

configure.ac:59: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LTDL_DLLIB
configure.ac:61: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LTDL_DLSYM_USCORE

don't think install libltdl-dev will help since it should getting it from toolchain?
but giving that a try now.

You are probably right - I don't think libltdl-dev will make any difference. The only thing I can think of is to do a hard git reset and make sure you have the latest source:

git --reset hard
git pull

This should give you a clean set of source.

Thanks!
Mark

 

[snowman]

Thanks for all the help Mark!!

TRX Image:
Total Size .... : 38490112 (37588.0 KB) (36.7 MB)
CRC-32 ........ : 925BDB9A
Runtime: 39:36

I guess this is the perfect example of "when you make something idiot proof; I just become better idiot"

Installed the following packages
python-dev autotools-dev libltdl-dev libtool autoconf autopoint intltool

I guess the initial apt-get failed because
automake-1.11 was not found.
weird debian-build-image didn't catch it...
It did installed whole bunch other packages.