[yocto] libcap compile error

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Remco Poelstra
<remco+vogels at beryllium.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m new with the Yocto project and I’m still trying to find my way.
> I’m using a Hachiko board using Architech SDK and have managed to build and
> run the standard image.
> As a next step I wanted to include the avahi mdns implementation. In order
> to do so I included IMAGE_INSTALL_append = “ avahi”
> When I now run bitbake, I get the following error for libcap_2.22.bb:
> | cap_file.c:8:23: fatal error: sys/xattr.h: No such file or directory
>
> The compiler has a switch
> ‘--sysroot=/home/architech/architech_sdk/architech/hachiko-tiny/yocto/build/tmp/sysroots/hachiko’,
> which indeed does not include this file.
> Is that the location where the file should be? How can I add it? Is this a
> more general bug in Yocto or just my local setup?
>

it seems you might be using uclibc, and xattr is absent in DISTRO_FEATURES, add

DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " xattr"

in your conf/local.conf and see if that helps.


> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Remco Poelstra
>
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