Re: NetworkManager ftbfs without libbpf

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On 7/22/26 1:23 PM, sicarine ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 July 2026 13:08:01 EDT sicarine wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I was testing the latest commit from today, and I found that NetworkManager
>> 1.58.0 would error out with
>>
>> ERROR: Assert failed: you must have libbpf >= 1.3.0 installed to build. Use
>> -Dclat=false to disable use of it.
>>
>> Using the switch suggested by the build system allows the package to build
>> normally. BLFS does not list libbpf as a dependency, optional or otherwise,
>> so perhaps the -D clat=false switch should be documented in that chapter,
>> and libbpf added as an optional dependency.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sicarine.
>>
>>
>>
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> Actually, looking further at the commit messages, it looks like Joe did
> include the clat switch in his original commit, but I guess it got mangled
> somewhere in the merge history??? How odd.

Thanks Sicarine. I fixed the book at a83588b790.

The reason I didn't add libbpf as an optional dependency it needs other 
things which are not mentioned and clat is supposed to be disabled by 
default.



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