DE10-Nano GHRD failure to generate

I managed to solve it ...

Guessing a missing dependency of some kind, strace and fgrep ENOENT eventually gave the clues.

Quartus requires "make", but they don't tell you in the documentation.

There is also a bug, in that Quartus continues after failing to find "make", or if make returns non-zero exit status. Bug reports filed with Altera, we shall see how they respond.

In the example, the calling process which expected to find hps_AC_ROM.hex makes a spurious error.

(Make was supposed to get it from ./soc_system/synthesis/submodules/hps_AC_ROM.hex)

The fix is trivial

sudo apt-get install make

The bug exists in 16.0, 16.1, 17.0, 17.1 and I'd guess all previous.

Oh for shame!

In solving this I made installation scripts, happy to share if there's any demand.

Jonathan.