[Buildroot] Building Network Manager fails at configure due to uuid package requirements error

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, 23 May 2017 08:35:52 +0000, Pascal K wrote:

> Here some console output:
> $make
> ...
> build/buildroot-config/conf --silentoldconfig Config.in
> >>> network-manager 1.4.2 Configuring  
> ...
> checking for LIBNL... yes
> checking for UUID... no
> configure: error: Package requirements (uuid) were not met:
> 
> Package uuid was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `uuid.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'uuid', required by 'world', not found
> 
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables UUID_CFLAGS
> and UUID_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> 
> Parts of my config, which I thought should do the trick with the uuid:
> BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX=y
> BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBBLKID=y
> # BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBMOUNT is not set
> # BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBSMARTCOLS is not set
> BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBUUID=y

Can you reproduce after a full rebuild, i.e "make clean all" ?

If so, could you please provide a complete .config file that reproduces
the issue ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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