Bug #128122 for UUID: library name overload on CentOS7

Thu Dec 27 17:32:53 2018 gcox [...] mozilla.com - Ticket created

Subject:	library name overload on CentOS7
Date:	Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:32:28 +0000
To:	bug-UUID [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Greg Cox <gcox [...] mozilla.com>

Hi, In attempting to package UUID, it took me a long time to discover that CentOS7 ships a package called uuid-devel (which DOES NOT work), and a package called libuuid-devel (which DOES work). uuid-devel is mentioned by name in Makefile.PL, and fails with things like: assertlibVxmaV_PQ.c:13:13: error: too few arguments to function ‘uuid_compare’ ... which is "something's wrong but I'm not sure what" to non-dev me. Basically, it'd be cool if you had a little more of a nudge in the direction of the right package to install, since there's naming-overload going on. If you could detect it, that'd be even more awesome, but a doc fix would be cool too. Thanks for your time. -Greg

Fri Dec 28 17:11:20 2018 JRM [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Hi Greg, Thanks for the heads-up. I wasn't aware that yet another libuuid variant was out there. I'll try to get a release candidate posted over the weekend that works with whichever version happens to be installed. Thanks! Rick

Fri Dec 28 17:11:21 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Dec 28 17:11:21 2018 JRM [...] cpan.org - Taken

Tue Jan 01 05:05:42 2019 JRM [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Changes for version 0.28 - 2018-12-29 Add OSSP variant of libuuid. CentOS7 (and presumably other RedHat derivatives) have packages for both OSSP and e2fs. Favor e2fs, if found, since our implementation of OSSP is probably slower.

Tue Jan 01 05:05:43 2019 JRM [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Tue Jan 01 05:05:43 2019 JRM [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.28 added