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

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:50 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.

It's not intuitive but you have to prepend "lib" to the linker "-l"
option so you should search for "libuuid.so"

$ repoquery --whatprovides /usr/lib64/libuuid.so
libuuid-devel-0:2.20.1-2.fc16.x86_64
libuuid-devel-0:2.20.1-2.3.fc16.x86_64

Richard