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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      @trijames:

      (except this…
      src/NetworkInterfaces.c:54:47: error: linux/if_ether.h: No such file or directory
      src/NetworkInterfaces.c:55:92: error: linux/if_packet.h: No such file or directory
      src/NetworkInterfaces.c:56:46: error: linux/if_tun.h: No such file or directory
      )

      That's harmless

      @trijames:

      But, I still got the dfuife_curses error at the very end:

      Checking BSDInstaller health… dfuife_curses missing [ERROR!]

      Everything else is clean!
      How are you getting dfuife_curses to build?
      Are you building manually?
      I also set environment variable force-pkg-register
          #> setenv FORCE_PKG_REGISTER

      Not sure if that helped with the cleaner build…
      But looks like the ISO still isn't going to be generated until I solve the dfuife_curses issue.

      I'm not sure why that is still failing. You might try to rm -rf /usr/local/pfsense-clone/ and then run the build again.

      That, or:

      cd /usr/home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/installer/ports/sysutils/dfuife_curses

      make install clean

      And then redo the build.

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        trijames
        last edited by

        Hi Jimp,

        ok thanks - I'll try it.

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          trijames
          last edited by

          Hi Jimp,

          i think there was a typo in the directory - but will ask just in case.
          I cd /usr/home/pfsense/installer/ports/sysutils/dfuife_curses.

          here's what I get when I try to make install clean…

          freebsd81rc1386# make install clean
          ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
          ===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE

          Distfile dfuife_curses-1.5.1.tar.gz not found!

          This is an 'INTERNAL' port, meaning that the distfile is not retrieved
          from the Internet, but rather created from a local checkout of the
          BSD Installer CVS repository.  Please see the shell scripts in the
          scripts/build directory of the repository for more information on how
          to create these distfiles.
          *** Error code 1

          Stop in /usr/home/pfsense/installer/ports/sysutils/dfuife_curses.

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            trijames
            last edited by

            Hi Jimp,

            1 more…
            I tried to remove the dir pfsense-clone - but didn't find it.
            I assume that is now called pfsense-fs?

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              It may be removed as part of the build process…

              Then try this from the builder_scripts dir:

              ./rebuild_bsdinstaller.sh

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                trijames
                last edited by

                thanks Jimp,

                Now that I've isolated it down to 1 issue (dfuife_curses)…
                I was wondering - how can I test whether it will fail on dfuife_curses first before trying to run build-iso.sh?

                that way I can save a good 1+ hours on building beforehand...

                Any tricks?

                regards
                TJ

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  The test is:

                  if [ ! -f "$PFSENSEBASEDIR/usr/local/sbin/dfuife_curses" ]; then
                  

                  And $PFSENSEBASEDIR is usually /usr/local/pfsense-fs, so look for:

                  /usr/local/pfsense-fs/usr/local/sbin/dfuife_curses

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                    trijames
                    last edited by

                    Hi Jimp,

                    that did it! 
                    here's what I did:

                    #> rm -fr /usr/local/pfsense-fs
                    #> ./rebuild_bsdinstaller.sh
                    #> ./build-iso.sh

                    thanks for all your outstanding support!  You were very responsive!
                    Hopefully now I can make the customizations I need to make… :-)

                    regards
                    James

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                      black0ut
                      last edited by

                      Gonna bump this thread.. Trying to build a pfsense ISO and getting a ton of patch rejections.

                      My pfsense-build.conf was generated using set_version HEAD.  I added the date line in the 8.1 supfile (even though the date is before the 8.1 release?)

                      Attached are my pfsense-build.conf and build log.  I looked at some of the rejections and some of the patches seem like they are for a completely different source tree

                      pfsense-build.conf.txt
                      log.txt

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        It should be building against RELENG_8_1 with no date= line.

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                          black0ut
                          last edited by

                          Actually tried that first, outputs the same rejection errors.

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            make sure the supfile being used actually references RELENG_8_1 and has no date line, don't trust the name of the file.

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                              black0ut
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                              Gah, I trusted the file but it referenced RELENG_8_0.  Also had a date line.  Seems to be working fine now.

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                                aneip
                                last edited by

                                Just trying to compile and build ISO but got a lots of patch error. Actually I trying to the new kernel compile. Any shortcut just to get just a kernel compile? I needs to test a cdce driver for my wimax usb device. It's used usb-ethernet interface.

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                                  bartgrefte
                                  last edited by

                                  Right now I am trying to create a pfSense 2.0 ISO following this howto: http://devwiki.pfsense.org/DevelopersBootStrapAndDevIso
                                  The only thing I modified was the /etc/make.conf to exclude the ath(4) driver from compiling.

                                  Also got some errors along the way:

                                  >>> Building olsrd
                                  >>> Building port olsrd
                                  src/NetworkInterfaces.c:54:47: error: linux/if_ether.h: No such file or directory
                                  src/NetworkInterfaces.c:55:92: error: linux/if_packet.h: No such file or directory
                                  src/NetworkInterfaces.c:56:46: error: linux/if_tun.h: No such file or directory
                                  src/Bmf.c:52:47: error: linux/if_ether.h: No such file or directory
                                  src/Bmf.c:53:75: error: linux/if_packet.h: No such file or directory
                                  
                                  >>> Building perl5.10
                                  >>> Building port wol
                                  the O_NONBLOCK symbol with a syntax error.  This is apparently a
                                  sh error.  Rerunning Configure with ksh apparently fixes the
                                  error, then please read the section "64 bit data in perl 5.6.0 and 5.6.1"
                                    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/perl/man/man3/CPANPLUS::Error.3
                                  
                                  >>> Ports with failures:        0
                                  >>> Building athstats...main.c: In function 'getfmt':
                                  main.c:73: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strcasecmp'
                                  Done!
                                  
                                  After cleaning of the build directories:
                                  >>> Fetching BSDInstaller using CVSUP...
                                  >>> Updating BSDInstaller collection...Done!
                                  cp: directory /usr/home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/../../installer/installer/scripts/build does not exist
                                  .: Can't open ./pfsense_local.sh: No such file or directory
                                  >>> Setting CVSUp host to cvsup7.freebsd.org
                                  
                                  

                                  ….

                                  Aaaah f*ck, no space left, so I can start all over.
                                  Waisted hours....

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                                    bartgrefte
                                    last edited by

                                    And AGAIN it failed. No clue about the cause this time.

                                    Request to developers: Please remove the ath(4) driver from the kernel and add it as separate module to /boot/kernel/ so that it is possible to update it by users without having to recompile everything that does not even will go without errors.

                                    edit: the log from Putty, saved everything from running ./menu.sh to end: http://www.ravenslair.nl/files/Putty-pfSense.log

                                    edit2: saw a familiar error, from the previous page: dfuife_curses missing [ERROR!]

                                    @trijames:

                                    Hi Jimp,

                                    that did it!  
                                    here's what I did:

                                    #> rm -fr /usr/local/pfsense-fs
                                    #> ./rebuild_bsdinstaller.sh
                                    #> ./build-iso.sh

                                    thanks for all your outstanding support!  You were very responsive!
                                    Hopefully now I can make the customizations I need to make… :-)

                                    regards
                                    James

                                    The 1st command says "Operation not permitted" at most lines, "Directory not empty" on the rest. And yes, logged on as root.
                                    2nd:

                                    
                                    freebsd# ./rebuild_bsdinstaller.sh
                                    cd: can't cd to /usr/home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/../../installer/installer/scripts/build
                                    >>> Creating installer tarballs...Done!
                                    >>> Copying ports to the ports directory...Done!
                                    >>> Rebuilding BSDInstaller...Done!
                                    freebsd#
                                    

                                    3rd command: not found., underscore instead of - ….

                                    (Another) edit:
                                    I now actually have an ISO, but not where it was supposed to be according the howto. Found it at /tmp/builder ??? ???

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                                      bartgrefte
                                      last edited by

                                      Just tried the ISO.

                                      Apparently it is not possible to prevent a driver from being compiled into the kernel, or I am doing something wrong.
                                      According to Google adding WITHOUT_MODULES = ath to /etc/make.conf should be enough, guess it's not.

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                                      • jimpJ
                                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                        last edited by

                                        Building an iso works for me on a builder I setup today…

                                        ./set_version.sh HEAD cvsup.example.com me@example.com
                                        ./update_git_repos.sh
                                        ./apply_kernel_patches.sh
                                        ./build_pfPorts.sh
                                        ./build_iso.sh
                                        
                                        

                                        I don't use the menu myself. (I've been using the builder code since before the menu existed… :-)

                                        Though after you update the repos you probably want to edit the kernel configs in /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/conf/pfSense*.8* to make your changes. Don't update the git repos again unless you want to lose your changes (or you could check them in locally I suppose...)

                                        Also look at MODULES_OVERRIDE in the pfsense-build.conf file, you could set it like so:

                                        export MODULES_OVERRIDE="i2c ipmi acpi ndis ipfw ipdivert dummynet fdescfs cpufreq opensolaris zfs glxsb runfw if_stf ath"

                                        and that should cause ath to be built at a module instead, if I'm remembering correctly. The other values there are the default contents of MODULES_OVERRIDE from pfsense_local.sh

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                                          bartgrefte
                                          last edited by

                                          The maker of the howto (who I contacted) suggested modifying /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/conf/pfSense*.8* too (which I did), but that did not do anything. Driver is still in there.

                                          Gonna try the MODULES_OVERRIDE next, see if that does what you said.
                                          edit: I do not see MODULES_OVERRIDE in that file ???

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                                          • jimpJ
                                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                            last edited by

                                            It's not in there by default, you'll have to add that whole line I quoted.

                                            Also FYI- I forgot to mention that sometimes the first build_pfPorts.sh run and the first build_iso.sh run will have a failure, but the second and later runs are fine. There are some dependencies that apparently get built on the first run that don't quite end up in all the right places until the second and later runs.

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