[Buildroot] Can buildroot use existing host fakeroot?

[Grant Edwards]

I maintain some firmware that uses buildroot 2016.11.2 (with some
local package upgrades). Unfortunately, it seems I can no longer do
builds because host-fakeroot won't compile (it's too old for my
kernel/libc version of stat?). I tried updating the fakeroot package,
but that won't build because it doesn't know how to build
host-acl. [My target doesn't even support ACLs, so trying to get that
installed and working seems a bit pointless.]

My development hosts all have working versions of fakeroot already
installed.

Is there any way I can just tell buildroot to use the existing
fakeroot instead of trying to build its own private copy?

--
Grant