Error in building from source

[acnologia000]

Describe the bug
when i am trying to building erlang from source on my machine, build process throws error

To Reproduce
follow build from source instructions (./configure && make && make install ), fails at make
Expected behavior
successful build ready to be used
but following build error comes up :

 CC	obj/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/opt/emu/erl_atom_table.o
 CC	obj/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/opt/emu/erl_bif_table.o
 CC	obj/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/opt/emu/erl_bif_ddll.o
 CC	obj/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/opt/emu/erl_bif_guard.o
make[4]: *** No rule to make target 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/opt/emu/erl_compile_flags.h', needed by 'obj/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/opt/emu/erl_bif_info.o'.  Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/hridyanshthakur/langs/otp_src_25.1.2/erts/emulator'
make[3]: *** [/home/hridyanshthakur/langs/otp_src_25.1.2/make/run_make.mk:35: opt] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/hridyanshthakur/langs/otp_src_25.1.2/erts/emulator'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:45: opt] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/hridyanshthakur/langs/otp_src_25.1.2/erts'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:60: emu] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/hridyanshthakur/langs/otp_src_25.1.2/erts'
make: *** [Makefile:503: emulator] Error 2
[hridyanshthakur@fedora otp_src_25.1.2]$ 

Affected versions
The OTP versions that are affected by this bug: Erlang/OTP 25.1.2

Additional context
i am not sure if i am missing some build instructions but i have been having this issue for sometime now ( i used to get successful builds before )

[mikpe]

That file is generated by a perl script, so please verify that you have perl and that the ./configure and make steps don't have any complaints about perl.

[acnologia000]

i do have perl installed and following is the grep output of the ./configure

[hridyanshthakur@fedora otp_src_25.1.2]$ cat out.txt | grep perl*
checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking if we should add -fno-tree-copyrename to CFLAGS for computed gotos to work properly... no
checking if sbrk()/brk() wrappers can track malloc()s core memory use... no
checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for perl... perl
checking for perl... perl

[bjorng]

Do you see any errors from the script make_compiler_flags?

What are your versions of perl and make?

[acnologia000]

 hridyansh  ~  make -v
GNU Make 4.3
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

 hridyansh  ~  perl -v

This is perl 5, version 36, subversion 0 (v5.36.0) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2022, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at https://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

i am not sure what do you mean by make_compiler_flags

[bjorng]

Thanks! Those versions should be fine.

I mean the script erts/emulator/utils/make_compiler_flags. It is the script that is supposed to generate the file x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/opt/emu/erl_compile_flags.h that seems to be missing.

You wrote that you have built OTP before. Was that the same release of OTP as you are trying to build now? Have you done any upgrades to your computer system recently? New Linux version?

[bjorng]

Are you building in a clean source tree that you have not built in earlier?

Are you building in a git repository or in a source directory extracted from a tar file?

Have you tried rebuilding in a clean directory? (In a git repository, do git clean -dXfq and rebuild; if you used a tar file, re-download it, extract the files, and build.)

[acnologia000]

Are you building in a clean source tree that you have not built in earlier?

Are you building in a git repository or in a source directory extracted from a tar file?

Have you tried rebuilding in a clean directory? (In a git repository, do git clean -dXfq and rebuild; if you used a tar file, re-download it, extract the files, and build.)

I'm building from tar, let me try rebuild I'll share complete output

[acnologia000]

@bjorng i tried build otp 25.1.2, build was successful this time