1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/mtd/mtd-utils_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtd/mtd-utils_git.bb
index 8d4892a0d4..17dca77609 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/mtd/mtd-utils_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtd/mtd-utils_git.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,13 @@ SRC_URI = "git://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git \
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git/"
 
-EXTRA_OEMAKE = "'CC=${CC}' 'RANLIB=${RANLIB}' 'AR=${AR}' 'CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -I${S}/include' 'BUILDDIR=${S}'"
+# xattr support creates an additional compile-time dependency on acl because
+# the sys/acl.h header is needed. libacl is not needed and thus enabling xattr
+# regardless whether acl is enabled or disabled in the distro should be okay.
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'xattr', 'xattr', '', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[xattr] = ",,acl,"
+
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = "'CC=${CC}' 'RANLIB=${RANLIB}' 'AR=${AR}' 'CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'xattr', '', '-DWITHOUT_XATTR', d)} -I${S}/include' 'BUILDDIR=${S}'"
 
 do_install () {
         oe_runmake install DESTDIR=${D} SBINDIR=${sbindir} MANDIR=${mandir} INCLUDEDIR=${includedir}