From cf26c772804cbce53bca73be28a64279cc7a8017 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julien Olivain Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2026 12:46:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] package/mkpasswd: add dependency to host-libxcrypt The host-mkpasswd package needs the header file installed on the host. This file was initially provided by the libc headers, as part of its libcrypt implementation. libcrypt was removed in glibc 2.39. Most Linux distributions continued to ship a libcrypt replacement such as libxcrypt in their default installation. Some mainstream Linux distribution (such as Debian testing) are now starting to remove this libcrypt and header from their default image (of development files). In that case, host-mkpasswd is failing to build with the error: /buildroot/output/build/host-mkpasswd/mkpasswd.c:54:10: fatal error: crypt.h: No such file or directory The issue can be reproduced by adapting the Buildroot Docker file, by setting "FROM debian:testing-20260316" in [1] and removing the build of tar. Note: debian 13 (for example Docker tag trixie-20260316) still includes the libcrypt-dev package by default, which provides crypt.h. In Buildroot, there is already the host-heimdal and host-systemd packages requiring host-libxcrypt. Also, the host-libxcrypt is a small standalone package. For those reasons, instead of adding the Buildroot prerequisite on the user host to provide a libcrypt implementation, this commit simply add the package dependency to host-libxcrypt, to make sure it will work in all situations. [1] https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2026.02/support/docker/Dockerfile#L11 Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain Signed-off-by: Marcus Hoffmann --- package/mkpasswd/mkpasswd.mk | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/package/mkpasswd/mkpasswd.mk b/package/mkpasswd/mkpasswd.mk index c1117ef65c..6ab6419824 100644 --- a/package/mkpasswd/mkpasswd.mk +++ b/package/mkpasswd/mkpasswd.mk @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ # at revision 5a0f08500fa51608b6d3b73ee338be38c692eadb HOST_MKPASSWD_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+ +HOST_MKPASSWD_DEPENDENCIES = host-libxcrypt + define HOST_MKPASSWD_EXTRACT_CMDS cp $(HOST_MKPASSWD_PKGDIR)/*.c $(HOST_MKPASSWD_PKGDIR)/*.h $(@D) endef