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Disclaimer: im not a linux expert and the only reason im posting is because i looked everywhere (hopefully) so please be gentle if you are going to flame me.

-Attempting to compile libubus, wpa_supplicant and hostapd for my ASUS router(Armv7 based) running Merlin firmware. -The source for the packages is from Entware.

-I'm using latest POP_OS to compile the packages (and my first time ever doing something like this).

-The problem starts below. why does it claim that libubus doesn't exist?

vi package/system/ubus/Makefile remove the .* after libubus.so

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run: make menuconfig

Select libubus, wpa_supplicant and hostapd-common

run: make -j1 package/network/services/hostapd/compile V=sc

Then i get the following error:

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/package/system/ubus' rm -rf /home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/ubus-2025.05.16~88e63250/.pkgdir/libubus.installed /home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/ubus-2025.05.16~88e63250/.pkgdir/libubus mkdir -p /home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/ubus-2025.05.16~88e63250/.pkgdir/libubus install -d -m0755 /home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/ubus-2025.05.16~88e63250/.pkgdir/libubus/lib cp -fpR /home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/ubus-2025.05.16~88e63250/ipkg-install/usr/lib/libubus.so /home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/ubus-2025.05.16~88e63250/.pkgdir/libubus/lib/ cp: cannot stat '/home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/ubus-2025.05.16~88e63250/ipkg-install/usr/lib/libubus.so': No such file or directory make[2]: *** [Makefile:83: /home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/ubus-2025.05.16~88e63250/.pkgdir/libubus.installed] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/package/system/ubus' time: package/system/ubus/compile#0.19#0.41#0.53 ERROR: package/system/ubus failed to build. make[1]: *** [package/Makefile:189: package/system/ubus/compile] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware' make: *** [/home/xxxx/Downloads/Entware/include/toplevel.mk:233: package/network/services/hostapd/compile] Error 2
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    Why “remove the .* after libubus.so”? That’s what’s causing the later error. Commented Aug 18 at 8:02
  • it errors, even with that in place. cp: cannot stat '/home/ultimatum/Downloads/Entware/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/ubus-2025.05.16~88e63250/ipkg-install/usr/lib/libubus.so.*': No such file or directory Commented Aug 18 at 12:27

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I've solved the problem by doing the following:

This error is happening because of this:

me@ubuntu:~/Entware$ cat package/system/ubus/Makefile <snippet> define Package/libubus/install $(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/lib $(CP) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/lib/libubus.so.* $(1)/lib/ endef <snippet>

I then ran the below find command, and libubus is clearly not under /usr/.

me@ubuntu:~/Entware$ sudo find / -name libubus.so <snippet> /home/me/Entware/staging_dir/target-arm_cortex-a9_glibc-2.27_eabi/opt/lib/libubus.so

I vim'ed the ubus Makefile and changed /usr/ to /opt/ and removed the .* The issue was resolved after that.

me@ubuntu:~/Entware$ vim package/system/ubus/Makefile <snippet> define Package/libubus/install $(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/lib $(CP) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/opt/lib/libubus.so $(1)/lib/ endef <snippet>
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