DE10-Nano GHRD failure to generate

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Hi All 

 I'm trying to recompile the standard GHRD for the Terasic De10-Nano Cyclone V SoC Board, and following the instructions (User Manual chapter 7) very carefully, it fails with a great number of errors (and four warnings), the first one a complaint about a missing file hps_AC_ROM.hex. This file does exist, in the soc_system/synthesis/submodules/ directory.  Has anyone met this? Or can give any useful pointer for what to try?  The source is from Terasic's DE10-Nano CD-ROM v 1.2.3 (but the versions of this CD do the same thing).  To repeat the error:  

1. Make a copy of the source: cp -Rp cdrom/Demonstrations/SoC_FPGA/DE10_NANO_SoC_GHRD GHRDx  
2. cd GHRDx  
3. Run quartus  
4. open project DE10_NANO_SoC_GHRD.qpf  
5. Tools > qsys and open soc_system.qsys  
6. generate > generate hdl, (defaults for form: Verilog, no third-party, yes create block, sim model none, output dir ./soc_system)  

   The generate hdl command fails with errors, the first of which isError: border: Error during execution of script generate_hps_sdram.tcl: seq: add_fileset_file: No such file /tmp/alt7540_4530398708016069914.dir/0003_seq_gen/hps_AC_ROM.hex   The compilation environment is a newly-configured Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server with$ quartus_sh --version Quartus Prime Shell Version 16.0.0 Build 211 04/27/2016 SJ Lite Edition   I tried it with 17.0 and got the same result: but 16.0 is what the manual says you need, and is what the source was made with.  I've managed to compile the simpler, non-Qsys examples and run them, but I've spent about five days getting nowhere with this.  Many thanks for any help and suggestions, Jonathan.

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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.