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Subject: libuuid-devel: libuuid.a for static linking missing in latest package
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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.

contrast: 
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Flibuuid-devel%2Flibuuid-devel-2.21-1&grep=uuid 
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Flibuuid-devel%2Flibuuid-devel-2.21-1&grep=uuid>> 
vs. 
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Flibuuid-devel%2Flibuuid-devel-2.21.2-1&grep=uuid 
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Flibuuid-devel%2Flibuuid-devel-2.21.2-1&grep=uuid>>

Is this a bug or is this on purpose? My google-fu did not find a reason 
for this change, or that the disappearance of libuuid.a is documented 
anywhere. Asking the cygwin installer to use 2.21-1 works for me (as it 
still include libuuid.a), but I'd rather everything build with a default 
cygwin install.

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.

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

Thanks in advance.

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