Error building from sources

[atomizasser]

Hello all

I'm trying to compile master branch for RT-AC68U following @Fitz Mutch instrucctions, but at somepoint i get an error:

make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/imac/asuswrt-merlin.ng-build/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21/sample'
Making all in test
make[6]: Entering directory '/home/imac/asuswrt-merlin.ng-build/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21/test'
Makefile:467: .deps/test-weof.Po: No such file or directory
make[6]: *** No rule to make target '.deps/test-weof.Po'.  Stop.
make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/imac/asuswrt-merlin.ng-build/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21/test'
make[5]: *** [Makefile:986: all-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/imac/asuswrt-merlin.ng-build/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:706: all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/imac/asuswrt-merlin.ng-build/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:3949: libevent-2.0.21] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/imac/asuswrt-merlin.ng-build/release/src/router'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:431: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/imac/asuswrt-merlin.ng-build/release/src-rt-6.x.4708'

Anyone can help me to solve it? Thanks.

 

[gds]

This seems to only happen with newer linux distros, for example, ok with ubuntu 14.04 but fails on fedora 30. To fix it I edited
/home/imac/asuswrt-merlin.ng-build/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21/test/Makefile.am and changed all occurrences of "top_srcdir" to "top_builddir". I think there were around 4 places where this was needed. On next clean build the dependency files in .../test/.deps/ are produced and the build continues.

Here's the diff:

diff --git a/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21/test/Makefile.am b/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21/test/Makefile.am
index b10c41a889..937fc7e72b 100644
--- a/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21/test/Makefile.am
+++ b/release/src/router/libevent-2.0.21/test/Makefile.am
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign

-AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/compat -I$(top_srcdir)/include -I../include -DTINYTEST_LOCAL
+AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_builddir) -I$(top_builddir)/compat -I$(top_builddir)/include -I../include -DTINYTEST_LOCAL

 EXTRA_DIST = regress.rpc regress.gen.h regress.gen.c rpcgen_wrapper.sh test.sh

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ endif
 EXTRA_PROGRAMS = regress
 noinst_HEADERS = tinytest.h tinytest_macros.h regress.h tinytest_local.h

-TESTS = $(top_srcdir)/test/test.sh
+TESTS = $(top_builddir)/test/test.sh

 BUILT_SOURCES =
 if BUILD_REGRESS