Le jeu. 7 mai 2026 à 10:54, Jose Quaresma <[email protected]> a
écrit :

>
>
> Igor Opaniuk via lists.openembedded.org <igor.opaniuk=
> [email protected]> escreveu (quinta, 7/05/2026 à(s)
> 08:13):
>
>> Hi Yoann,
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM Yoann Congal <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed May 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM CEST, Igor Opaniuk via
>> lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> > > Configure fails with "crypt() not found" when building shadow-native
>> on
>> > > hosts where libcrypt is no longer part of glibc and the libxcrypt
>> > > development files are not installed (e.g. fresh Ubuntu 24.04+, where
>> > > glibc 2.39 dropped libcrypt and libxcrypt-dev is not pulled in by
>> > > default).
>> > >
>> > > virtual/crypt-native is in ASSUME_PROVIDED (meta/conf/bitbake.conf),
>> > > which is why a plain DEPENDS = "virtual/crypt" does not pull
>> > > libxcrypt-native into the native sysroot - the host is expected to
>> > > provide libcrypt. That assumption no longer holds on current
>> > > distributions.
>> >
>> > Note that we added libcrypt-dev as a documented host dependency here:
>> >
>> https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs/commit/?id=2b41d175ea1924bf401a203fb678261fefb228dc
>>
>> Thanks, I missed that. With virtual/crypt-native in ASSUME_PROVIDED
>> this is consistent with how OE-core treats other
>> host-provided libraries. I'll drop the patch.
>>
>> One small follow-up if it's worth the time:
>>
>> the failure mode for users who miss the doc update is a configure
>> error deep in shadow-native
>> (checking for crypt in -lcrypt... no -> configure: error: crypt() not
>> found), which doesn't obviously point at
>> "install libcrypt-dev on the host".
>>
>> Would a sanity-check addition (something along the lines of
>> ./meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass
>> testing for crypt.h / -lcrypt on the build host and emitting the same
>> hint as the docs) be welcome?
>>
>
> I think that would be useful and help in interpreting the error. However,
> there's nothing like that in sanity.bbclass.
>

I agree with the idea of a sanity check.
We do have a test for -lstdc++:
https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass#n835
That might be used as a starting point?

Thanks!


>
> Jose
>
>
>> Happy to put a patch together if so.
>>
>> Thanks for the review.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > > A previous attempt to fix this by adding libxcrypt-native to DEPENDS
>> > > unconditionally (commit 65532fc751 "shadow: add libxcrypt-native
>> > > dependency") was reverted in 54eccb76eb because it incorrectly pulled
>> > > a -native recipe into the target build. Use class-specific overrides
>> > > so the target build is unaffected and only shadow-native (and
>> > > nativesdk-shadow) gain the explicit dependency on libxcrypt-native /
>> > > nativesdk-libxcrypt.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Igor Opaniuk <[email protected]>
>> >
>> >
>> > > ---
>> > >  meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.19.4.bb | 2 ++
>> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> > >
>> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.19.4.bb
>> b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.19.4.bb
>> > > index 94f155641c..cc69864a2a 100644
>> > > --- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.19.4.bb
>> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.19.4.bb
>> > > @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
>> "file://COPYING;md5=c9a450b7be84eac23e6353efecb60b5b \
>> > >                      "
>> > >
>> > >  DEPENDS = "virtual/crypt"
>> > > +DEPENDS:append:class-native = " libxcrypt-native"
>> > > +DEPENDS:append:class-nativesdk = " nativesdk-libxcrypt"
>> > >
>> > >  GITHUB_BASE_URI = "https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/releases";
>> > >  SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/${PV}/${BP}.tar.gz \
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Yoann Congal
>> > Smile ECS
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards - Freundliche Grüsse - Meilleures salutations
>>
>> Igor Opaniuk
>> Senior Software Engineer, Embedded & Security
>> E: [email protected]
>> W: www.foundries.io
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> José Quaresma
>


-- 
Yoann Congal
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