WRT54GX2 GPL Firmware building unsuccessful

Question

Hi,
I downloaded WRT54GX2_v1.01.19.tar.gz from Linksys GPL repository and tried building an image on a debian system (Woody) but I keep running into build problem.  Please see the error message below.  Can someone from Linksys give me a recommended building platform to build these images?  Also I noticed that you have removed the above file but the WRT54GX2_v1.01.14.tar.gz is even less build friendly because there is no make file or toolchain included.  I just want to build a default image first before making any modification but so far no luck.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
wadalada
       if egrep "^#define CONFIG_IMAGE_SQUASH 1" /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Rea
ltek/linux-2.4.x/include/linux/autoconf.h > /dev/null;  then\
       /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/tools/mksquashfs /home/wada/wrt/WRT54
GX_ALL_Realtek/romfs /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/images/2x2/cramfs.img -b
e -noappend;\
       fi;\
       /opt/toolchain_mips/bin/mips-linux-objcopy -S -O binary /home/wada/wrt/W
RT54GX_ALL_Realtek/linux-2.4.x/vmlinux /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/images
/2x2/kernel.bin;\
       gzip -9f /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/images/2x2/kernel.bin;\
       if [ "-"  -lt 50 ] ;then\
               echo -e  "\n\nError Kernel size is bigger than flash size of ker
nel";\
               echo -e "KERNEL size  is Too Big Flash size only 0x100000\n\n";\
               exit 1;\
       fi;\
       /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/tools/packbin  /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX
_ALL_Realtek/images/2x2/kernel.bin.gz r 0 /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/ima
ges/2x2/kernel.bix;\
       /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/tools/kfspad  /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_
ALL_Realtek/images/2x2/kernel.bix 0x100000  /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/i
mages/2x2/cramfs.img /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/images/2x2/run_tmp.bin;\
       /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/tools/packer  /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_
ALL_Realtek/images/2x2/run.bin 0=/home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/images/2x2/r
un_tmp.bin,0,3e0000-18 0x3e1000-18=/home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/images/2x2
/run_tmp.bin,3e0000-18;\
       /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/tools/packbin  /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX
_ALL_Realtek/images/2x2/run.bin k 0 /home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/images/2x
2/run.bix;\
       fi
/bin/sh: -c: line 9: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
/bin/sh: -c: line 9: `fi;\'
make[2]: *** [image] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wada/wrt/WRT54GX_ALL_Realtek/vendors/Realtek/RTL865XB'

Answer 1

Well...I've been hacking away at WRT54GX4 1.00.20, just out of curiosity, all evening...with no success: 1) Makefiles do not behave well on FC6, at a minimum 2) I cannot find a way to make images/2x28/kernel.bin.gz happen 3) copying vmlinux over to images (and gzipping it) doesn't seem to help much, although it gets past not having the kernel file of (2). 4) No load_srcroot directory anywhere, and no obvious way to produce what's needed there or in the images directory. ....I got pretty far up the creek (up to a point where Image Packer ran, but skipped packing a bunch of items that don't exist/build. I'm unsure how much of my lack of progress is (1) versus not having all the needed parts in the tar.gz), but I still have no paddle.