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Chuck Fry
Chuck Fry

Reputation: 397

Buildroot gcc headers don't match linux-headers

I'm using Buildroot 2018.02.7 to build a simple Linux system for i386 PC, as a precursor to doing the same thing for an embedded ARM system. I keep running into problems like this one, in building the util-linux module:

  CC       lib/libcommon_la-path.lo
lib/pager.c:11:17: fatal error: err.h: No such file or directory
 #include <err.h>
                 ^
compilation terminated.
Makefile:8596: recipe for target 'lib/libcommon_la-pager.lo' failed
make[3]: *** [lib/libcommon_la-pager.lo] Error 1

When I look in the linux-headers source tree in .../output/build/linux-headers-4.13.8, the file is found. But Buildroot is pointing to a different set of headers, the one built into its GCC:

devuser@3faf730b4a1b:~/pc/buildroot-2018.02.7/output/build/util-linux-2.31.1$ ../../host/bin/i686-buildroot-linux-uclibc-gcc -print-sysroot
/home/devuser/pc/buildroot-2018.02.7/output/host/i686-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot
devuser@3faf730b4a1b:~/pc/buildroot-2018.02.7/output/build/util-linux-2.31.1$

And the two /usr/include subdirectories are significantly different.

Have I missed a configuration setting somewhere in the defconfig file? This is the defconfig:

BR2_x86_core2=y
BR2_SSP_REGULAR=y
BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_4_13=y
BR2_UCLIBC_CONFIG="board/pc/dsa_pc_i386_uclibc.config"
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_USE_SSP=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_CXX=y
BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="tty1"
BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="board/pc/post-image.sh support/scripts/genimage.sh"
BR2_ROOTFS_POST_SCRIPT_ARGS="-c board/pc/genimage-bios.cfg"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="4.13.8"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE="board/pc/linux.config"
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INSTALL_TARGET=y
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_XENOMAI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_CONFIG="board/pc/dsa_pc_i386_busybox.config"
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_ATHEROS_9170=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_ATHEROS_9271=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IWLWIFI_3160=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IWLWIFI_3168=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IWLWIFI_5000=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IWLWIFI_6000G2A=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IWLWIFI_6000G2B=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IWLWIFI_7260=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IWLWIFI_7265D=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IWLWIFI_8000C=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IWLWIFI_8265=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_RALINK_RT73=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_RALINK_RT2XX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_RTL_81XX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_RTL_87XX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_RTL_88XX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_RTL_8169=y
BR2_PACKAGE_ACPID=y
BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB=y
BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFFI=y
BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE_UCP=y
BR2_PACKAGE_READLINE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
BR2_PACKAGE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_DBUS_NEW=y
BR2_PACKAGE_KMOD=y
BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBMOUNT=y
BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y
BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y
BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="120M"
# BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set
BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GENIMAGE=y

Upvotes: 0

Views: 603

Answers (1)

Arnout
Arnout

Reputation: 3484

Enable UCLIBC_HAS_BSD_ERR in uClibc.

You have a custom uClibc configuration. That falls squarely in the "you know what you are doing" category, since it allows you to remove features that other packages rely on.

In this case, util-linux relies on the non-Posix err.h include. This is only installed if UCLIBC_HAS_BSD_ERR is enabled in the uClibc configuration.

There is a high risk of running into similar issues with a custom uClibc configuration.

Upvotes: 2

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