New Firmware build issue in tn4810m/tn48m

[DhimanAirao]

While compiling new firmware for tn4810m I faced the following issue. This might be because /bin/bash -l -c need commands in double-quotes. please help me debug it.

[robimarko]

Did you run git submodule init and then git submodule update after cloning the repo?

[DhimanAirao]

Yes, I performed git submodule init and git submodule update after cloning repo.

My make command is this: make J=8 V=10 NO_CACHE=1 CTARGET=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu package_tn4810m

Is there any problem with make comamnd?

System Information: OS: Manjaro Linux(23.0.0) DISTRIBUTION: GNOME CPU cores: 8 RAM: 8GB

[robimarko]

Please use V=1 and dont use NO_CACHE. If that fails, can you post the whole log as its compiling fine for me.

[DhimanAirao]

Hii, this time I execute following command but still error persist. I attached log file for your reference.

make J=8 V=1 CTARGET=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu package_tn4810m log.txt

[robimarko]

Ok, so its failling to download zlib. I would suggest passing Gentoo mirrors that are near you via GENTOO_MIRRORS= from: https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/

[DhimanAirao]

I think this is not a issue related to mirror as when I tried to download zlib in my own system it still fails. As url(https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz) which replica uses to download zlib uses didn't exists.

Can you say how to change zlib download url in replica?

[robimarko]

That is exactly why I am saying to add mirrors as genkernel is using an older zlib version and zlib.net only hosts the latest version but mirrors should have the older version as well.

If that doesn't work, you can edit repos/gentoo/sys-kernel/genkernel/genkernel-4.3.2.ebuild to use https://www.zlib.net/fossils/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz instead.

[DhimanAirao]

Hello, tried multiple mirrors(China, Japan ,US) still issue persist and also tried by modifying repos/gentoo/sys-kernel/genkernel/genkernel-4.3.2.ebuild then it was not able to extract ERROR: sys-kernel/genkernel-4.3.2::gentoo failed (unpack phase): Can you tell which mirrors you are using so I can try with it?

[robimarko]

I am using: GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.wheel.sk/ http://mirrors.evowise.com/gentoo/"

As they are much faster than the default ones where I live

[DhimanAirao]

Hello, your mirrors worked for me too. Thank you for your help and support.

[DhimanAirao]

Can you please tell me how to add custom packages in firmware build as I cannot see any documentation related to it in repo?

[paulmenzel]

As a lurker, I’d appreciate it, if you opened a new issue for this.

[robimarko]

I dont think there are any docs for it, but you can just specify more packages in: https://github.com/sartura/replica-overlay-switch/blob/main/profiles/replica/armada7040-prestera/packages

Basically, docs for Gentoo apply here.

[DhimanAirao]

I think this will only provide us the packages which are available in Gentoo packages. What I want is if I have some custom package stored in my local machine. So how to add that during firmware build?

[robimarko]

For that, you can either add a custom ebuild to the switch ebuild repo or add your own ebuild repository and include it. Everything relating to ebuilds and ebuild repos is documented already in Gentoo docs

[paulmenzel]

With commit https://github.com/sartura/replica/commit/f01924d239f973d09e57b1b4e580e67eaf0ff34c I ran

make -j32 DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 CTARGET=armv7a-unknown-linux-musleabihf package_tn4810m  GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.wheel.sk/ http://mirrors.evowise.com/gentoo/"

but still got the error:

#13 1634.7 >>> Downloading 'https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz'
#13 1634.7 --2023-07-16 14:34:13--  https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
#13 1634.7 Resolving zlib.net... 85.187.148.2
#13 1634.7 Connecting to zlib.net|85.187.148.2|:443... connected.
#13 1634.7 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
#13 1634.7 2023-07-16 14:34:13 ERROR 404: Not Found.
#13 1634.7
#13 1634.7 !!! Couldn't download 'zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz'. Aborting.

[paulmenzel]

Could you please share the correct line?

[jpetrina]

Could you please share the correct line?

Paul, could you please give us more details so we could follow up accordingly?

[paulmenzel]

Sorry, it worked trying it on the weekend. One mistake in my line is CTARGET=armv7a-unknown-linux-musleabihf, and should be CTARGET=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu. From my side, I can’t reproduce it anymore with the command below:

make -j32 DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 CTARGET=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu package_tn48m GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.wheel.sk/ http://mirrors.evowise.com/gentoo/"

[jpetrina]

Thanks, I am closing this issue.

@DhimanAirao, please feel free to open up a new issue regarding custom package integration though.