FS#4120 - Problems compiling starting from trunk (or from openwrt-21.02)

[openwrt-bot]

desigabri:

Supply the following if possible:

• Device problem occurs on Tp-link Archer C2600
• Software versions of OpenWrt from Trunk
• Steps to reproduce:

**Download "master" from Git: **
#git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git master
#cd master
#git pull
#./scripts/feeds update -a
#./scripts/feeds install -a
#make menuconfig
#make -j 1 V=s

• compilation stops very early with errors about Ninja and Meson

Tryed make clean, make dirclean, make distclean -> same results.

ALL REPEATED 3 times!

then:

#git checkout v21.02.0
#git pull
#./scripts/feeds update -a
#./scripts/feeds install -a
#make menuconfig
#make -j 1 V=s

• I can see logs about ninja and meson compiling right
• compilation stops after long time with error about libcap

then:

#git checkout master
#git pull
#./scripts/feeds update -a
#./scripts/feeds install -a
#make menuconfig
#make -j 1 V=s

- compiling goes right

It seems impossible to compile master or 21.02 at fist time: may be something wrong in master make file about compiling ninja and meson packages so for 21.02 compiling libcap package?

[openwrt-bot]

bittorf:

this was fixed here:

commit 6a5b4228e30244b44a49f523dea66caf3fbe3307 Author: Damien Mascord Date: Mon Nov 1 20:06:20 2021 +1100

build: fix ldconfig executable error in python

The empty executable is causing problems with meson builds, due to the
error: OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error: 'ldconfig'

This patch changes the empty ldconfig stub to symlink to /bin/true to
work around this issue.

Fixes: FS#4117
Fixes: 3bd31cc4d2ff ("tools/meson: update to 0.60.0")

Signed-off-by: Damien Mascord <tusker@tusker.org>
Tested-by: Aleksander Jan Bajkowski <olek2@wp.pl> # Tested on Debian 11
Tested-By: Lucian Cristian <lucian.cristian@gmail.com>
Tested-By: Baptiste Jonglez <git@bitsofnetworks.org>
Cc: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>

$ git describe 6a5b4228e30244b44a49f523dea66caf3fbe3307
reboot-17951-g6a5b4228e3


[openwrt-bot]

desigabri:

ok it work for Openwrt-21.02 build but it doesn't for master....

I'm saying FROM SCRATCH

master says (compiling an old package because the newer SoftEtherVPN-5.02.58000 created big problems to me):

5.01.9674 vpnserver vpnbridge vpnclient vpncmd hamcore-archive-build
ninja: Entering directory `/home/gabriele/openwrt/mastermod/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15+neon-vfpv4_musl_eabi/SoftEtherVPN-5.01.9674'
ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [Makefile:169: /home/gabriele/openwrt/mastermod/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15+neon-vfpv4_musl_eabi/SoftEtherVPN-5.01.9674/.built] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/gabriele/openwrt/mastermod/package/network/services/softethervpn5'
time: package/network/services/softethervpn5/compile#2.23#0.47#2.54
ERROR: package/network/services/softethervpn5 failed to build.

Just to say that openwrt-21.02 build goes right and the firmware run very fine (until now)