xorg build error: needs uuid

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Mon Jul 7 11:03:31 PDT 2008


> But does the *BSD stuff define HAVE_LIBUUID somewhere?  If it doesn't,
> then the check should be fine, right?  If there isn't a libuuid package
> on the system, then --with-libuuid shouldn't be specified at build time.
> So I guess I'm confused as to where it's failing in the default case for
> you.  If you don't specify --with-libuuid, does it work for you?

I never specified --with-libuuid. I also used autogen.sh and it doesn't 
specify --with-libuuid.

Looking at configure and configure.ac: libuuid is not defined, so it 
matches not-equal of "no" so does the pkg-config check where it fails.

> We can obviously generalize the libuuid check to "--with-uuid" to
> encompass both libuuid and the *BSD native functionality, but that's an
> enhancement.

Okay.



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