[Xapian-devel] uuid configure issue?

[Olly Betts]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 08:41:37AM -0700, David Jeske wrote:
> That was the problem. I manually copied uuid.h and libuuid.a to
> /usr/local/*. Once I moved uuid.h to /usr/local/include/uuid/uuid.h
> configure worked fine.
> 
> Before I did any of this, I did a "make install" on e2fsprogs. The build did
> get hung up on some doc-build part because I don't have texi2dvi installed,
> but I don't see any target to install libuuid.a or uuid.h, only one to
> install the binaries for uuid and uuidgen.

Looking into this it seems libuuid moved to linux-util-ng just over a year
ago:

http://lwn.net/Articles/341659/

I suspect the copy in e2fsprogs is just there for convenience now, which is
why it doesn't get installed.

I'll update the installation instructions - thanks for catching this

Cheers,
    Olly