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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Preloader Make untar failing.

I am attempting to compile a new preloader on windows using SOCEDS 18.0...but am failing at untar'ing the uboot-socfpga.tar.gz.

Chris@DESKTOP-NSSUV7O /cygdrive/f/VirtualBox VMs/share/rocketboards_image/17_1_DE10/DE0_NANO_SOC_18_0/software/spl_bsp

$ make

tar zxf /cygdrive/c/intelFPGA/18.0/embedded/host_tools/altera/preloader/uboot-socfpga.tar.gztar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/cygdrive/c/intelFPGA/18.0/embedded/host_tools/altera/preloader/uboot-socfpga.tar.gz'

make: *** [uboot-socfpga/.untar] Error 1

Ideas?

Besides the point, I am trying to change the SOC Workshop Kernel Module# 9 to use the FPGA 2 SDRAM instead of the FPGS 2 HPS (Heavyweight), by recompiling the preloader, as I've read this is why the FPGS 2 SDRAM is failing for me.

Right now I'm reinstalling SOCEDS into virtual machine, and trying again.

Project compiled with 18.0. SOCEDS is version 18.0

Thanks!

11 Replies

  • Joakim's avatar
    Joakim
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    7 years ago

    After getting some inspiration to your suggestions above, I found a pretty good solution.

    Simply run /usr/bin/make instead of just make.

    On my system it uses make from /cygdrive/c/intelFPGA/18.1/embedded/host_tools/gnu/make/H-x86_64-mingw32/bin/make instead of /usr/bin/make

  • MKami1's avatar
    MKami1
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    8 years ago

    In my case, the file "tar.exe" was in the folder "c:\window\system32". I ran "make -j -d" and at the end saw, that "make" would try to start "c:\windows\system32\tar.exe zxf ..." instead of cygwin path. Of course, windows tar can't to recognise unix path and finishes with error "File not found". So, I deleted "tar.exe" in "c:\window\system32" folder and this is a solution for this issue.

  • Julien's avatar
    Julien
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    8 years ago

    Hi,

    I stumbled upon the exact same issue, Quartus 18.0 & Windows 10 here.

    MKami1 answer nailed it, however personnally I did not want to delete c:\windows\system32\tar.exe from my system, so instead I opted for a one line modification of the Makefile, to avoid swapping windows-style paths by unix-style paths for this specific command:

    #$(UNTAR) $(shell cygpath --unix "$(if $1,$1,$(if $<,$<,$(error ERROR: no input provided to gnu make function untar_recipe)))")

    $(UNTAR) $(if $1,$1,$(if $<,$<,$(error ERROR: no input provided to gnu make function untar_recipe)))

    Works fine. There is probably a much better permanent fix, but I will let Altera care about it.

    Cheers

    Julien

  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    8 years ago

    My fix was to remove the untar from the makefile (run the tar xvf $(preloader.tar.gz) myself)and/or make sure the filepath does NOT have any spaces in it. Seemed to work for me for now. New preloader.bin generated!

  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    8 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    My fix was to remove the untar from the makefile (run the tar xvf $(preloader.tar.gz) myself)and/or make sure the filepath does NOT have any spaces in it. Seemed to work for me for now. New preloader.bin generated!

    --- Quote End ---

    I am experiencing the same with version 16.1.

    I have an older preloader, which I already have compiled (propablywith an older version). Just tried to recompile this one with version 16.1.

    It reported the same error.

    I can not see which version was used to generate this preloader/BSP.

    It make no difference whether I try to compile the old or the new preloader. Neighter will untar the source code.

    I can confirm, that if I copy the "tar" line from the error message and execute it directly in EDS command shell, it works fine.
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    8 years ago

    Now I just tried the same on an other computer, running Windows 8.1, still Quartus 16.1

    What didn't work on a Windows 10 machine, worked fine on Windows 8.1

    This issue needs a solution
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    8 years ago

    Hello Bob,

    Can you please post the modified makefile you have created?

    Thank you

    Yossi
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    8 years ago

    Commet out lines 219/220 of preloader make file.

    # $(RM) $(PRELOADER_SRC_DIR)

    # $(untar_recipe)

    Run

    tar zxf /cygdrive/c/intelFPGA/18.0/embedded/host_tools/altera/preloader/uboot-socfpga.tar.gz

    then

    make

    from EDS prompt.

    I am not good enough with make to know what is going on, but this seems to be the band-aide for me right now.
  • LLars's avatar
    LLars
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    7 years ago

    Thanks, I was having the same problem, then I commented out the two lines and it ran!