two libuuid.a

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 24 15:04, Yaakov S wrote:
> On 2010-02-24 10:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Probably not.  From my POV it's a bug in the e2fsprogs package to
> >provide a libuuid.a lib.  It should rely on the w32api provided file and
> >if something's missing, it should be added there.
> 
> The libuuid from e2fsprogs is completely unrelated to the w32api
> UUID.DLL implib.  FWIW, any *NIX software that I've seen obviously
> wants the e2fsprogs version, but if libuuid-devel is installed (in
> /usr/lib) then you can't link against the w32api implib with a
> simple -luuid.

Uh, ok, I didn't know that.


Corinna

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