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

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

On Wed Jan 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM CET, Antonin Godard via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> 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?

Apologies, I just realized you sent a follow-up patch on this, so you can ignore
my email.

Antonin

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