Re: [OE-core] libcap-ng upgrade depends problem

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Tue Jan 13, 2026 at 8:01 AM CET, Yiding Liu (Fujitsu) via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I tryed to upgrade libcap-ng from 0.8.5 to 0.9, but there is PKG_CHECK error during do_configure
>
> | checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
> | ../sources/libcap-ng-0.9/configure: line 14862: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBBPF,libbpf,'
> | ../sources/libcap-ng-0.9/configure: line 14862: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBBPF,libbpf,'
> | NOTE: The following config.log files may provide further information.
> | NOTE: /mnt/contribution/build_image/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/libcap-ng-native/0.9/build/config.log
> | ERROR: configure failed
> | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.
>
> It seems like libbpf is needed as dependence.
> But libbpf is in meta-oe not in oe-core.
> Does any one has experience about this problem?

This probably means that the libbpf recipe needs to be moved from meta-oe
to openembedded-core. Can you send a series that adds this recipe first, and
then updates libcap-ng?

Thanks,
Antonin

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