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Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:42:33 -0500
From:	"Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: libuuid-devel: libuuid.a for static linking missing in latest package
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On 2014-03-31 18:22, i DOT like DOT privacy DOT too AT gmail DOT com wrote:
> I've just updated an old cygwin environment to latest, and my build
> broke. Further examination shows that when I upgraded from
> libuuid-devel-2.21-1 to libuuid-devel-2.21-2.1, the file
> /usr/lib/libuuid.a (which my build was relying on) disappeared.
>
> Is this a bug or is this on purpose?

On purpose; static libraries are now disabled by default.

> Note that there *is* another libuuid.a available in the mingw packages,
> but those are not the same library - the mingw libuuid.a is a link
> library for the Win32 uuid.dll; wheras the (now missing) libuuid.a from
> libuuid-devel provides the unix style uuid library - an easy test: if
> the library contains the routine "uuid_compare", it is the Unix one; if
> it doesn't, it's the Windows one.

Correct, these are not the same.

> So, should I switch to shared libuuid.so, or should I try to submit a
> patch to add the .a again?

You should link with -luuid, which will create a dependency on the 
libuuid1 package.


Yaakov


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