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

["Matthew Silva" <dev@matt-silva.com>]

On Sun Jul 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM EDT, Baruch Siach wrote:
> 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

That fixed the issue perfectly.

I appreciate the help, Baruch.
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