The libutil.h we are after is explicitly only something we want on FreeBSD, we don't want to accidentally pick up this header on other platforms as it can lead to build failures. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- meson.build | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 4d42468a51..bc52079809 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -685,7 +685,6 @@ headers = [ 'asm/hwcap.h', 'ifaddrs.h', 'libtasn1.h', - 'libutil.h', 'linux/kvm.h', 'linux/magic.h', 'mntent.h', @@ -711,6 +710,10 @@ if host_machine.system() == 'linux' headers += 'linux/devlink.h' endif +if host_machine.system() == 'freebsd' + headers += 'libutil.h' +endif + foreach name : headers if cc.has_header(name) conf.set(&#39;WITH_@0(a)&#39;.format(name.underscorify().to_upper()), 1) -- 2.26.2