problems compiling selinux

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Naveen,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 06:47:36PM -0700, Naveen Nathan wrote:
> I'm trying to compile busybox on Android with SELinux support.
> 
> I'm using the latest git, with the android_defconfig, and the supplied
> android_build script. Looking back on the mailing list, someone else
> appeared to have the same issue which was supposedly fixed with:
> http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=6ec1510f719ad7463d76eea9284428cc605d6b
> 
> But this doesn't seem to be the case. I've tried to include the headers
> from the cross compiled kernel by supplying options to CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS
> in the .config, but still have issues compiling.

These headers (e.g. selinux/selinux.h) are not part of the kernel. They come 
from the libselinux library. You must have them installed in your build 
environment in order to build a SELinux enabled Busybox. See 
http://userspace.selinuxproject.org/trac.

baruch

> Output I'm receiving when compiling:
> 
> $ ./android_build
>   CC      applets/applets.o
> In file included from include/busybox.h:8,
>                  from applets/applets.c:9:
> include/libbb.h:56:30: error: selinux/selinux.h: No such file or directory
> include/libbb.h:57:30: error: selinux/context.h: No such file or directory
> include/libbb.h:58:28: error: selinux/flask.h: No such file or directory
> include/libbb.h:59:37: error: selinux/av_permissions.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from include/busybox.h:8,
>                  from applets/applets.c:9:
> include/libbb.h:1256: error: expected ')' before 'sid'
> include/libbb.h:1257: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'set_security_context_component'
> include/libbb.h:1259: error: expected ')' before 'scontext'
> make[1]: *** [applets/applets.o] Error 1
> make: *** [applets_dir] Error 2
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.

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