[mythtv-users] Compile from source fails with configure: error: cannot link with -luuid, install uuid-dev]

Greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Tue Jun 19 20:03:47 UTC 2012


On 06/19/2012 03:50 PM, jnissley at nissley.org wrote:
> I download the latest source from github this morning and tried to compile
> on my fedora 15 and fedora 16 servers and the following fatal error was
> given.
>
> checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... no
> configure: error: cannot link with -luuid, install uuid-dev.
> make[1]: *** [zeromq/Makefile] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mythtv/mythtv/mythtv/external'
> make: *** [external] Error 2
>
> I looked for a package called uuid-dev and could not find one but I did
> install all of the uuid packages I could find.
>
> [root at mythtv2 mythtv]# rpm -qa | grep uuid
> uuid-php-1.6.2-4.fc15.x86_64
> uuid-dce-1.6.2-4.fc15.x86_64
> uuid-1.6.2-4.fc15.x86_64
> uuid-pgsql-1.6.2-4.fc15.x86_64
> libuuid-2.19.1-1.4.fc15.x86_64
> uuidd-2.19.1-1.4.fc15.x86_64
> uuid-dce-devel-1.6.2-4.fc15.x86_64
> uuid-devel-1.6.2-4.fc15.x86_64
> uuid-c++-1.6.2-4.fc15.x86_64
> uuid-c++-devel-1.6.2-4.fc15.x86_64
> uuid-perl-1.6.2-4.fc15.x86_64
>
> Can someone please assist me in getting past this error.  Thanks
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I looked and that file is available using Ubuntu,but it isn't installed 
on my machine...My guess is it's something unique to Fedora....


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