Buildroot 2019.11-rc1 Network Manager 1.20.4 Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Virtual Machine (on DigitalOcean) Build fails on network manager with: configure: error: Package requirements (gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.40 gmodule-2.0) were not met: Package 'gio-unix-2.0', required by 'virtual:world', not found Package 'gmodule-2.0', required by 'virtual:world', not found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Reproduced on a colleague's desktop Ubuntu setup as well. Issue does not occur on earlier versions of Buildroot. Defconfig: BR2_x86_64=y BR2_x86_corei7=y BR2_CCACHE=y BR2_OPTIMIZE_2=y BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC=y BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_5_3=y BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_32_X=y BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_CXX=y BR2_GCC_ENABLE_LTO=y BR2_GCC_ENABLE_GRAPHITE=y BR2_INIT_SYSTEMD=y BR2_SYSTEM_BIN_SH_BASH=y BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_WHITELIST="C en_US en_US.UTF-8" BR2_GENERATE_LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" BR2_PACKAGE_NETWORK_MANAGER=y
I can confirm that this is fixed by reverting commit: package/network-manager: drop obsolete dependencies 7643ab05de860011e749aa720c92d5de150bee0a The commit incorrectly drops some dependencies that NetworkManager requires, particularly glib. If I knew specifically which dependencies were required, I would / will submit a patch.
I have submitted http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1201823/ to fix this.
Merged for 2019.11, thanks