[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 1.1.5 (release candidate for 1.2.0) released

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Sat Apr 17 14:09:03 BST 2010


On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 02:44:26PM +0200, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote:
> I've got a configure error with 1.1.5 on FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE:
> 
> ...
> checking for uuid/uuid.h... no
> configure: error: uuid/uuid.h not found - required for brass, chert and flint (you may need to install the uuid-dev, libuuid-devel or e2fsprogs-devel package)
> 
> 
> uuid.h is in /usr/include on FreeBSD (but it's in uuid/uuid.h on macosx
> strangely).
> 
> Also FreeBSD does not have uuid_generate(), it apparently has an equivalent
> function named uuid_create().

Well, the simplest thing to do would be to install libuuid from e2fsprogs
(as INSTALL says).  If you can get things to work with the FreeBSD library
without too much nastiness, feel free to send in a patch.

Cheers,
    Olly



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