Re: [Buildroot] [Question] Difficulties with Autotools and nilfs-utils package

[Baruch Siach via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hi Matthew,

On Sat, Jul 05 2025, Matthew Silva wrote:
> I am in the process of attempting to add partclone
> (https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone) to buildroot; however, I'm
> running into some issues with its dependency on the nilfs-utils package.
>
> I add it as a dependency both in the Config.in and partclone.mk file but
> when the autotools ./configure runs for partclone, it fails with an
> error saying it is unable to find the "nilfs.h" header file.
>
> Looking at the target /usr/include folder, the nilfs.h header is
> installed there. However, it is not present in the sysroot /usr/include
> folder.
>
> Comparing this to the e2fsprogs dependency that partclone also has, the
> required "ext2fs.h" header file gets installed in both the target AND
> the sysroot /usr/include folders.
>
> My understanding is that autotools is failing because it expects the
> nilfs.h file to be in the sysroot. And it needs to be in the sysroot
> because that is where the cross-compiler (x86_64-buildroot-linux-gnu in
> this case) looks for files when building for the target. (Please correct
> me if I am wrong on either of these).
>
> I am unable to figure out why the nilfs-utils package will not install
> its headers into the sysroot folder. I am not sure if it is a buildroot
> setting or an autotools setting that would be the cause of this issue.

Try adding 'NILFS_UTILS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES' to
package/nilfs-utils/nilfs-utils.mk.

baruch

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